News Scrapbook 1979

TIMES-ADVOCATE SEP 3 O1979

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women at work? . You're dam right it could. And if you are a businesswoman m the San Diego area, you might want to change the_"co~d" to "pro~bly would," according to a recent survey out of the Umversity of San Diego School of Business Administration. The survey, a look at "The Psy~bological B~e~;1111peding the Pro~re;,s of Women in the San Diego Business Community, concludes ~t, Dis- criminatory attitudinal barriers exist in the minds of men who donunate the managerial ranks of corporations in San Diego." . . . Also "As long as this situation persists, women will be frustrated mtheir efforts' to participate equitably in our economic system." . . The final tally on the survey, which asked local males m top executive positions to agree strongly or somewhat, disagree strongly or somewhat, or Please see A-Ii, Col. l

By BARBARA O'NEIL T-A Staff Writer

SAN DIEGO - Say you are a businesswoman, who, with all of your experience and ability, is the obvious next person in line for a management position in your firm. You hear that the president of your company has approved a manage~ent training program for a few select employees, and you go to your supervisor and ask to be a participant. He says he'll get back to you, but he never does, and th next you h~ar, all of the participants for the program have been select , and you re_ ~ot in l ded. The chosen few are all fairly well qualified, tho h not as qualified you and they are all men. . Could tpis really still happen in this day of supposed enlightenment about

agree only somewhat while women disagree strongly. Somewhat ironically, the male respondents agreed strongly with the statement, "I agree with the June 1974 ruling of the Supreme Court that employers must pay women and men equal wages for what is essentially equal work." The three professors who complet- ed the survey suggest in their final report that the executives' discrimi- natory attitudes be dealt with through corporate, in-house seminars con- cerning the issue.

disagreed strongly. -"A working mother can establish just as strong a relationship with her children as can a woman who chooses to stay at home." The men disagree somewhat while the women agree strongly. -"A few union leaders and produc- tion managers admit that in some jobs women are simply more produc- tive than men and yet, men still receive a higher wage. However, this is as it should be because men are invariably the principal breadwinners in the family." Men dis-

"Men are well entrenched in manage- ment positions and are not inclined to promote women regardless of their ability." They also agreed with the men on the statement, "Men are more asser- tive and less passive than women." Other statements on the survey in- cluded the following: -"Unless they are single, women should not crave personal success, but be satisfied with their husband's achievements." Male respondents disagreed somewhat with this state- ment while female respondents

Morris. Their sample consisted of 100 male, chief executive officers in the San Diego business community, 33 of whom responded to the questionnaire. The three professors also used a second sample of 100 professional women in San Diego (55 responded), who voiced significantly different opinions from the men on the same questionnaire. The women disagreed with most of the obviously sexist statements the males tended to agree with (some are noted above), but they agreed, perhaps quite realistically, with the males on the statement,

-Believe that a woman should will- ingly give up her job and move to a new region if her husband is offered a better job there, while a man should NOT do the same for his wife. -Tend to agree with the statement, "A woman's place is in the home." -Disagree only somewhat with the statement that an executive is justi- fied in not promoting a qualified wom- an employee because it may distress the men in her department. The survey was developed and dis- tributed by USO professors Robert O'Neil, Roger Glaser and M. Carol

Continued from A-1 voice no opinion on a series of 20 state- ments, shows that these men: - Believe to some extent that wom- en should be excluded from manage- ment training programs because the tendency of most women is to marry and become mothers. -Agree with the statement, "Men are well entrenched in management positions and are not inclined to pro- mote women regardless of their abili- ty."