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OCR Page 1 of 34January 27, 1956
(I-103)
NATIONAL MANPOWER COUNCIL
Information Memorandum No. 103
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REPORT ON WOMANPOWER CONFERENCE
New York, N. Y., January 16-17, 1956
Summary
a. This memorandum reports on a conference held in New York City to
review with outstanding women leaders the proposed scope of the
Council's study on womanpower and the Council's present tentative
position with respect to the areas of policy recommendation.
b. The participants thought that the Council should be aware that
the term "womanpower, if 1t is used for the title of the report, will
be viewed by some as too broad and by others as too narrow. Neverthe-
less, there does not appear to be another term better suited to
convey the focus of the Council's study.
c. The discussion emphasized two major problem areas in womanpower=-
the career woman on the one hand, and the intermittent woman worker
on the other. With respect to the first, i.e., the women who enter
employment with an adequate educational background and training, and
who remain as full-tim workers making a major investment in their
jobs, industry still fails to utilize them effectively. It fails
to identify these women or to offer them opportunities for training
and advancement to high level administrative and policy-making posts.
d. With respect to those women who do not remain as full-time workers
in the labor force, the problems are in many ways more complex. The
declining age of marriage which interrupts the education and training
process; the early withdrawal from the labor force for home-making
and family responsibilities; the scarcity of part-time employment
opportunities which might enable those women who had acquired skills
to continue to use them; the de-valuing of volunteer experience
which might serve a. similar function; the inadequacy of training
and guidance facilities for older women who wish to enter or re-enter
the labor force; all these are aspects of the current problem which
need fresh consideration with a view to making concrete and realistic
recommendations.
e. In searching for a basis for re-evaluating these problems, the
conference stressed the following: Quite apart from what a high
quality education might contribute toward the more effective utiliza-
tion of women as workers at any stage of their lives, this education
is needed if women are to survive as individuals in this scientific
age. In the process of improving their education for living, a
aubstantial contribution is likely to be made toward increasing their
employability. Educational guidance for girls needs to place in-
creased emphasis on the multiple roles which, the probabilities
indicate, they will be called upon to play in the coming years.
Industry, on the other hand, needs to place increased emphasis on the
individual workers and to abandon some of its easy but false generali-
zations about women workers.
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