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Equal Employment Opportunity: Women and Minority Aerospace Managers and Professionals, 1979-86

HRD-90-16 Published: Oct 26, 1989. Publicly Released: Nov 02, 1989.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO examined national data on equal employment opportunity among government contractors in the aerospace industry between 1979 and 1986, focusing on whether: (1) the representation of minorities and women in the industry changed over time; (2) the aerospace representation reflected their representation in the labor force; and (3) minorities and women in aerospace received pay similar to white males for similar work.

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Aerospace industryContractor personnelDepartment of Defense contractorsEmployment discriminationEmployment of minoritiesFair employment programsLabor forceLabor statisticsWomenAfrican Americans