Women Employees in Europe (1984)

Work and occupation situation of women employees in Europe.

Topics: type of employment; temporary work; type of job and employer;
time worked each week; area of business; company size; position in
company hierarchy; company employment; age at start of employment;
unemployment experience and length of unemployment; job demands and
personal abilities; sex of immediate superior and of colleagues;
comparison of occupational situation of women with the situation of
male colleagues; assumed equal treatment of men and women in reduction
in personnel; personal experiences of sex-specific discrimination in
hiring of new employees; judgement on one´s own chances in the job
market; job security of spouse; assessment of impact in case of
hypothetical unemployment of respondent as well as of spouse (scale);
perceived reasons for unemployment of women; attitude to a male
privilege in hiring in times of high unemployment; primary earner in
the household; personal education; assumed effects of technological
development on personal job and type of effects; judgement on personal
preparedness as well as ability to adapt to technical changes in
comparison to male colleagues; assessment of the possibility of
performing the current occupation at home; interest in work at home;
influence of high income taxation on interest in a job; knowledge of
women not working due to high taxation; experience of sexual harassment
at work; knowledge of laws on equal treatment of men and women at work;
knowledge of institutions of the European Community and their
occupation with problems of equality of men and women at work;
judgement on the effectiveness of these departments; judgement on the
efforts of trade unions for equal treatment; attitude to trade unions
or membership.

Demography: marital status; household size; household composition;
respondent is head of household; characteristics of head of household;
age at leaving school; date of birth; number of children under 8 and
between 8 and 15 years in the household.