Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, March 17, 1991                   TAG: 9103150838
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: E-3   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
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DIVERSITY A REALITY IN U.S. WORK FORCE

A report by the Hudson Institute, "Workforce 2000: Work and Workers for the 21st Century," predicts that:

Only 15 percent of the net new entrants into the labor force over the next 10 years will be native-born white males, compared to 47 percent today.

Almost two-thirds of those entering the work force between now and the year 2000 will be women, and there will be more women in higher-paying professional and technical jobs.

Non-whites will make up 29 percent of the new workers, double the present number. Immigrants will represent the largest single increase.

By comparison, the Department of Labor's January 1990 statistics show that, of 117.9 million workers, 10.1 percent were black and 7.5 percent were Latino; 45.4 percent were women.

Felice Schwartz, in her 1989 Harvard Business Review article that explored what came to be known as the "mommy track," wrote: "Women in the corporation are about to move from a buyers' to a sellers' market. The sudden, startling recognition that 80 percent of new entrants in the work force over the next decade will be women, minorities and immigrants has stimulated a mushrooming incentive to `value diversity."'