Paper presented at Symposium on Research and Utilization of Educational Media for Teaching the Deaf (Lincoln, Nebraska, March, 1971). The deaf employment situation is discussed within the framework of employment statistics from the 1950's to the 1970's with the implication deaf vocational training may need to focus on services, not technical work.…

In the emerging post-industrial society, there is little understanding of the characteristics of information, a basic, yet abstract resource. Information is expandable, compressible, substitutable, transportable, diffusive, and shareable. Implications for life, work, community, and conflict are considered. (AM)

Compares male and female psychologists in academic settings on promotion and tenure; employment opportunities and status; productivity; job mobility; career patterns; employment settings; and variables related to rank attainment. Suggests that research provides little support for common assumptions about sex differences in career programs.…

Discusses services provided by group job search programs; describes two job search programs that train youth in job seeking and job application skills; examines outcomes of the two youth programs; and suggests that group job search programs can be effective in promoting youth's entrance into the labor market. (Author/MJL)

The principal distinction between nonfeminist and feminist economists is that the latter view the present assignment to economic duties based on sex as unfair and wish to draw a system of work and family relations that will be fair to men, women, and children. (MSE)

Evidence suggests that office workers' salaries are comparable to those of other occupations that do not require postsecondary education and that clerical workers enjoy a high degree of job security. It is important that students be given information on where jobs are and will be and what income level to expect. (JOW)