Faculty Advisor: Andrea Smith-Hunter
Course: Individual Studies
Abstract: Occupational trends looks at the distribution of a region’s working population – over a period of time – stratified across different occupations, gender, race, age,income and geographic region. Why study occupational trends? This topic is important for a number of reasons: (1) as a means to predict the future; (2) to allow governmental agencies to know where to focus resources; (3) to allow educational institutions to fulfill needs that are upcoming and (4) to direct economic patterns and issues that are related to a society’s economic portfolio and thus to the needed areas, such as changes in pay rates. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has raised a number of issues and questions regarding shifts in needs and wants of the population. Those supply and demand issues will in turn impact what industries and occupations are needed over the next decades, and analyze how those positions will be occupied, especially across gender and racial lines. Such an analysis is critical in providing an early picture of where we are are headed as a national and global economy. The paper will use the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics data to analyze occupational trends for women across racial lines over the last fifty years.
Location: MAC, Table # 83
Poster Presentation
