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Mortgage Money: Who Gets It? A Case Study in Mortgage Lending Discrimination in Hartford, Connecticut
1. Why Study Mortgage Lending?
2. Population and Housing in Hartford
The role of brokers
The role of loan officers
Objective criteria
3. Minority Rejection in Mortgage Lending
The role of brokers
The role of loan…
Tags: discrimination, housing, race, work
Factors Contributing to Nontraditional Career Choices of Black Female College Graduates
[Working Paper No. 83]
Tags: African American, career, education, race, work
Between Plantation and Ghetto: Black Women, Work, and the Family in the Urban South, 1880-1915
[Working Paper No. 79]
I. Physical And Human Dimensions of the Urban Household
II. "Too Proud to Bend: Too Poor to Break": Domestic Servants
III. Escapes From Domestic Service
IV. The Role of Black Women in Southern Labor and Race Relations,…
Tags: African American, agriculture, children, class, family, industry, labor, marriage, policy, politics, race, sexual harassment, slavery, urban, work
The Merits of Child Support Payments as an Income Source for Female Headed Households
[Working Paper No. 75]
Contents
Introduction
The Demographic Characteristics of Female Headed…
Tags: child care, children, divorce, law, marriage, parenthood, policy, race
A Bridge of "Bent Backs and Laboring Muscles": Black Working Women in the Rural South, 1880-1915
[Working Paper No. 67]
I. Rural Women's Roles in Context: The Southern Sharecropping System, 1880-1915
II. The "Double Duty" of Wives, Mothers, Daughters, and Grandmothers
III. Women, Men, and Rural Afro-American Culture
IV. The Women of a "Restless…
Tags: African American, agriculture, career, child care, children, class, discrimination, economy, education, family, homemaking, marriage, politics, race, rural, work
Freed Women?: Black Women, Work, and the Family During the Civil War and Reconstruction
[Working Paper No. 61]
I. Confronting Freedom
II. Black Women as "Free Laborers," 1865-1868
III. Sharecropping as a Family Enterprise
IV. Freedwomen in the City
V. New Dresses, Defiant Words, and Their Price
VI. Power and Influence Within the Family and…
Tags: African American, agriculture, class, data, discrimination, economy, family, labor, politics, race, rural, slavery, work
Black Working Women: Factors Affecting Labor Market Experience
[Working Paper No. 39]
I. Introduction
Profile of Black Working Women
Statement of Purpose
Outline of Paper
II. Historical Overview
Introduction
Labor Force Participation Rates
- Factors Influencing Labor Force Participation Rates
- Race and Sex…
Tags: African American, career, discrimination, education, labor, law, race, work
Management and Administration: Workshop VII on Expanding Career Options of Women
I. Introduction
A. Goals
B. Objectives
II. Problem: Overview
III. Focus: Barriers/Problems
A. Women and Society
B. Woman and the World of Work
C. Women and Womanhood
D. Women and Support Systems
IV. Focus: Strategy
V.…
Professional Workers: Workshop VI on Expanding Career Options of Women
I. Introduction
II. Structure of Employment
A. Occupational Trends that Influence Demand
B. Factors that Influence Study
III. Problems and Directions for Change
A. Effectiveness of Public Placement Agency
B. Career Choice for…
Black and Other Minority Workers: Workshop II on Expanding Career Options of Women
I. Background: Discrimination and Impoverishment
A. Where They Live
B. Least Desirable, Lowest Paying Jobs
C. The Impact of Ghetto Life
D. Limited Educational Opportunity
II. Explanations
A. African American Women
B. Native…
Tags: affirmative action, African American, Asian American, class, community, data, discrimination, education, health, housing, Latina/Latino, law, media, Native American, policy, poverty, race, religion, welfare, work