The high educational level of our group is no doubt partly related to income, which will be referred to later.

C

15%

A

11.4%

1.9%

Of all

College grades of the group are extremely high: those reporting any college attendance, 78% had average grades of A or B, 11% boing straight A; C's were earned by 15% and D's by just 2%. (Seo Fig. 1) So-called "normal" distribut i on s of student grades usually show in the neigh➡ borhood of 5% or so each receiving A's A's or F's, &= round 25% each carning B's and D's and some thing like 40% receiving C's.

-VARIED 4.7%

A&B

7.6%

B 59%

INCOME LEVEL

FIG.I-DISTRIBUTION OF COLLEGE GRADES

The income level of the group is also above average: The median monthly wage of those reporting specific income figures (about 85% of the total sample did so) is $350, or $4200 annually. This compares with a 1957 median annual income for white income-earning females over 14, nation-wide, of only $1310. (The nation-wide median for those working full-time and year-round is $3097, and would probably be still higher if the 14-20 year olds could bo excluded. But wo have no assurance that all the present group work full-time the year-round.) Fig. 2 gives the distribution of persons in our survey by income bracket.

OCCUPATIONS

A variety of occupations is represented (see Fig. 3). The professional group is more numerous than any other (38% of the total); while clerical workers are second with 33% of the total. (The percentage of clerical workers is about the same as that for the white employed female pcpulation in general; how over the professional representation in our group is much heavier than it is for the nation: In 1958 professional and semi-professional workers amounted to only 13% of white employed females, com-

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