Abstract
This study examines U.S. military occupation equity with a special focus on African-American women. The dependent variable was occupation category. A three-way interaction of race by gender by mental group was found, making untenable the contention that mental group solely predicts personnel assignment to occupation category. Women, and particularly African-American women, are underrepresented in the core, technical occupations and overrepresented in the nontechnical, support occupations examined in this study. The opposite is true for white men. Social and psychological factors are postulated regarding women’s disproportionate employment in traditionally female and lower status occupations.
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Cheatham, H.E., Seem, S.R. Occupation equity: A black and white portrait of women in the united states military. Rev Black Polit Econ 19, 65–78 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02899932
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