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Mike
Carruthers:
Back
in 1972 a study was done on the American workplace. Now a follow
up study has just been completed. So, thirty-four years later
are things better or worse?
James O'Toole:
I think things are a lot different - there are winners
and there are losers. It's been a pretty good run of thirty
years for American women.
James O'Toole,
who co-authored the original study in 1972, is also the co-author
of the new study - which is out in a new book called The
New American Workplace.
Today that gender
gap has closed greatly and American women are as satisfied as
men with the quality of their work lives, with the nature of
their jobs. Women have made great strides.
And the big loser
in today's American workplace…
Uneducated men
- and the uneducated people in general, people who are in poor
jobs. Their economic situation has greatly deteriorated, continues
to deteriorate. Their prospects for the future keep looking
dim and if you are a person today who chooses not to go on to
college or to some form of higher education - even a couple
of years of community college - the chances of your finding
good employment today are practically nil. The jobs that those
people used to get which were union jobs in manufacturing are
really disappearing - there the ones that are being off shored
- there the ones that are being automated out of existence.
Tomorrow, will
there really be a shortage of American workers in the next few
years? I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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