By Richard R. Peterson
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12 Perhaps more significant than the movement of women into the labor force is the movement of women into some traditionally male occupations. , accountant, lawyer, bus driver) rose Page 5 significantly. 14 Changes in women's gender attitudes have accompanied these trends. 17 While women are increasingly relying on their own earnings, it is not reasonable to assume that all married women could be economically self-sufficient in the event of divorce. In spite of their progress, women are not competing equally with men in the labor market.
I also owe a large debt to the professors and students at Columbia University who commented on this manuscript while it was in draft as a dissertation: Joseph Altonji, Ellen Auster, Peter M. Blau, Linda Cranor, Eric Hirsch, Yvette Schlussel, Joseph Schwartz, and Viviana Zelizer. The assistance of Carl Pieper in making data available from the Quality of Employment Surveys is also appreciated. The funds required for computer analyses were provided by Columbia University and New York University. Finally, I would like to acknowledge the contributions of Rita Duffy.
Studies of job characteristics have found that the levels of authority and responsibility associated with jobs affect earnings. Roos (1981) used two measures of authority relations in the work place: control (whether or not a worker has a boss or supervisor) and authority (the number of levels of subordinates below him/hernone, one, two or more). Roos found that women tended to have less control and authority than did men. , prestige, percent female). Robinson and Kelley (1979) also found sex differences in the distributions of, and income returns to, control and authority.