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89% of all women are placed in "other jobs"

*Prom six (6) contractors in the construction trades

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Contracts with less than 5% women
Operating Engineers, International Union, 11 cities
Teamsters Joint Councils (40 & 53 Fleetville, Pa.)
National Assn of Homebuilders, 17 states
Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons, 29 states
United Brotherhood of Carpenters, 51 cities
National Tool, Die & Precision Machining

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Natl Assn for Retarded Citizens, 26 states & D.C.

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Robert P. Hunter

Chief Counsel and

Staff Director

United States Senate

Committee on Labor and Human Resources

4230 Dirksen Senate Office Building

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Enclosed please find our corrected copy of the transcript
from hearings on sex dis crimination in the workplace
held on January 28, 1981.

We have attached additional comments which respond to questions posed by members of the Committee during discussion at the hearing.

If any further information is needed please feel free to contact me or the Network staff at 347-0522.

Sincerely,

Shiley Sandage

Shirley Sandage,
President

76-638 0-81--8

The following additional testimony is submitted by the Displaced Homemakers Network, Inc. in response to questions posed by members of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee at hearings on sex discrimination in the workplace held January 28, 1981:

THE NEED

FACTS ABOUT DISPLACED HOMEMAKERS UNDER CETA TITLE III

Displaced homemakers are persons who have spent many years in the home caring for family members, and subsequently lose their source of support through separation, divorce, death or disability of the spouse, or ineligibility for continued government assistance. The majority are middle-aged women without recent paid work experience, who face many personal and social barriers to employment and economic self-sufficiency.

LEGISLATION

Federal legislation to assist displaced homemakers was introduced in the 94th and 95th Congresses; following House and Senate hearings in 1977 and 1978, displaced homemaker provisions were included in the reauthorization of CETA in 1978. Under PL 95-524, Title III, Section 301, displaced homemakers are recognized as a group facing special disadvantages in entering the paid labor force. Under this legislation, the Secretary of Labor may spend up to 2% of all Title III funds for special programs to assist displaced homemakers.

APPROPRIATIONS

Of

In FY 1980, $5 million was appropriated for services for displaced homemakers. this amount, $3.25 million was earmarked for prime sponsor awards and $1 million was reserved for national demonstration grants to private non-profit organizations through the Department of Labor's Office of National Programs. (About $175,000 went through the Women's Bureau for a 15-month contract with the Displaced Homemakers Network, Inc. to provide technical assistance to 37 prpgrams, and about $170,000 was contracted in Autumn 1980 to a private firm, Berkeley Planning Associates, for a 12-month formal evaluation. The remaining $405,000 covered other costs.)

PROGRAM INITIATION

In response to solicitations for grant applications, 270 prime sponsors and nearly 400 non-profit organizations submitted proposals. In 12-79 and in 7-80, the Department of Labor announced 31 prime sponsor and 6 national demonstration grant awards in 27 states. Special target groups for these programs included minority, rural, and older displaced

homemakers.

These programs serve displaced homemakers at 60 locations under the operation of YWCA's, community-based women's organizations, Community Action Agencies, educational institutions (voc-tech schools and community colleges), OIC, Urban League, AFL-CIO, and Commissions for Women, in addition to a few run directly by prime sponsor staff.

Programe stress job-orientation, adequate skill training or vocational education, then Referrals are given for such typical displaced homemaker problems as The sand for legal assistance.

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