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.