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Study: Job choices explain
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The big
gap between the earnings of women
and men can largely be blamed on
clustering of females in certain occu
pations and in their lack of work ex
perience, a Census Bureau study
suggested Thursday.
Overall, it said, women continue
to earn only 70 cents for every dollar
taken home by a man.
While the disparity remains great,
it represents progress from the 62
cents on the dollar women were
earning in 1979, said Gordon W.
Green Jr., of the Census Bureau’s
socioeconomic statistics division.
In addition to job-clustering and
less experience, other factors that
setting women workers apart from
men include time taken off from
work and differences in their fields
of study in college.
“There is an important message
here for the woman who is career-
minded and wants to get ahead at
work,” Green said in an interview.
It tells them that if they go to col
lege, they should study Fields men
have traditionally studied. These are
Fields such as law, engineering, sci
ence and mathematics. If they do
not choose college, women should
try and develop technical training or
enter the skilled trades, he said.
And, Green added, if family du
ties call them away from work,
women should try to limit those in
terruptions so they will not let their
skills become obsolete or lose se
niority.
Nearly half of employed women
— 47 percent — have been off work
for at least six months sometime in
their work lives, compared with only
13 percent of men, the study found.
Family duties were the most com
mon reason for women to interrupt
work, while inability to find a job was
the major reason for men.
Those work absences affect future
wages, the report said.
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workers, average hourly pay was
$10.82 for men and $7.52 for
women. This adds up to a disparity
of 70 cents on every dollar.
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been interrupted for six months or
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DECATUR, Tenn. (AP) — A day
after a bloody courtroom rampage
erupted at the verdict’s pronounce
ment, a man acquitted in a barroom
slaying, along with some of the ju
rors at his trial, remained in hiding
for their safety. Authorities ex
tended through Monday a curfew
imposed after Wednesday night’s
melee at the Meigs County Court
house, Sheriff R.L. McKenzie said.
“Cool heads will have to prevail or
there’ll be more bloodshed,” said
McKenzie, who has canceled days
off for his staff and called in the
Highway Patrol to keep peace in this
normally sleepy river town.
Jerry Allen, 27, who was found in
nocent Wednesday on one count of
First-degree murder and two counts
of assault, was under police protec-
tion at an undisclosed site outside of
town, as were his family members,
McKenzie said.
The 12 jurors at his trial also were
under guard either
other places, he said.
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About 200 people, including rela
tives of Allen and the dead man, had
gathered in the second-floor court
room to wait for the verdict anti
went on a rampage when it was read.
Chairs were thrown, benches over
turned and windows shattered as the
mob tried to grab Allen and mem
bers of the jury, witnesses said.
Another 200 people who had
been milling around outside also lx*-
gan shouting and cursing, they said.
Frank Harvey, assistant district at
torney, said, “The jury came back
with the verdict and the murmuring
started. It then escalated to people
shouting, people jumping other peo
ple and it degenerated from that
point.”
At least two people were treated at
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a hospital in the aftermath, but no
elect ion.
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during the three-dav it uals.
ently were stirred byaknpflnrher
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was charged with killing,, overall.
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and friends of friends. overall j
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said Allen testified that h sional ei
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at the Dew Drop Inn inselMsthat firm
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