The Minority Women Employment Project: A Demonstration Program to Facilitate Entry of Managerial, Professional, and Technical Occupations

Abstract

In February 1972, the Office of Research and Development, Manpower Administration funded a pilot project, the Black Women Employment Program, to determine if the outreach strategy utilized to place minority youths into building ·trades apprenticeship could be adapted to help minority female college graduates break into nontraditional managerial, professional and technical occupations. In March 1973, a similar project was funded separately in Houston. In November 1974, the programs in Atlanta and Houston were consolidated as the Minority Women Employment Program of RTP, Inc. and.the project was replicated in five other sites: Dallas, New Orleans, Tulsa-Oklahoma City, Cincinnati-Dayton, and Los Angeles. This paper, a status report on the consolidation and expansion of the Minority Women Employment Program, provides a description of project objectives and procedures and draws conclusions and recommendations from operations to date.U.S. Department of LaborRay Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resource