I. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS The purpose of this study is to provide the statistical information and analysis necessary for implementing an effective EEO program in the Department. First, the study evaluates comprehensively the underutilization of minorities and women. It then attempts to analyze the underutilization in order to identify and facilitate means of solution. The study investigates the factors potentially responsible for the underutilization of minorities and women, and provides the data required for establishing goals and timetables. In accordance with these goals, the statistical study is divided into two main parts. Presented first is an ex amination of underutilization which contains three sections. The first is a brief overview of the status of minorities and women. The second section includes an analysis of underutilization, Department-wide, as well as in administrations and regions. The final section of the first part is a McKersie analysis which compares the position of blacks in the Department to their status in private industry. While the first part of the statistical analysis evaluates October 8, 1971 U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Office of the Secretary Acknowledgements We would like to express our deep appreciation to John Hanson, June Robinson, Evyonne Martin, Joyce Dupree, Kitty O'Leary Higgins, and Dick Schubert without whom not only this report, but all of the work of the Task Force would have been impossible. We would also like to thank the following list of kind people who helped in various ways with the preparation of this report: Marie Bankhead Joe Collier Bill Dedham John DeLeon Ray Doyle John Irving Dick Jones Tom Kouzes Cliff Lee Vince Macaluso Melvin Moxley Vince Oliver Deanell Reece Frank Ridley Kathy Wedemeyer Althiea Wiggins Frank Yeager Wilt Zanders Frank Zarb We want to express our gratitude to Secretary of Labor James D. Hodgson and Under Secretary of Labor Laurence H. Silberman for the opportunity to work together independently, and with official blessing. We hope that we may have been of help to them in their efforts to make the Department of Labor a better place to work for all its employees. |