GENDER AND RACE - EMPLOYMENT-OPPORTUNITY AND THE AMERICAN ECONOMY, 1969-1991

The author examined the relationship between gender and race with regard to economic conditions and employment opportunities between 1969 and 1991. The study showed that women in general and white women in particular experienced increasing employment opportunities and rising wages in the 1970s and 1980s, that the ''privileged'' economic status of white males eroded in the 1970s and 1980s, that black; experienced greater Income equality than whites from the 1970s to the 1980s, and that the income gains black men experienced in the 1970s declined markedly in the 1980s. Implications of pursuing a high-wage, high-tech economy for racial and gender groups are discussed.