both cases the proportion is much higher than the comparable national proportions. Clerical workers, the second most important group among men and women alike, were less woll reprosented among the men than among the women, but considerably more important in the male survey group than nationwide among white employed males. Trades, on the other hand skilled or unskilled far less important in the male survey group than nationwide, and so were managerial and official jobs.

were

The distribution of the 4 categories of occupations mentioned above is given below for the men and women surveyed, together with proportions taken from the 1957 Census data for white employed males and femles. Other categories of occupations, such as sales, personal services, etc., wore relatively unimportant in both groups.

MALES

FEMALES

SURVEY

WHITE

SURVEY

OCCUPATION

GROUP

EMPLOYED*

GROUP

WHITE EMPLOYED✶

PROFESSIONAL

51%

11%

44%

13%

CLERICAL

24

7

33

33

TRADES**

45

6

17

MANAGERIAL

5

14

3

5

*ANNUAL REPORT ON THE LABOR FORCE, 1958, SERIES P-50, U.S.

BUREAU OF THE CENSUS.

**CRAFTS, FOREMEN, OPERATIVES, AND OTHER LABOR, EXCLUDING

FARM LABOR.

TABLE 2. OCCUPATIONAL DISTRIBUTION

Many factors are probably at work here, such as voc8tional interest, opportunity and ability, which would be difficult to disentangle even if more information wero available. One might wonder, thus, whether the large "clerical" element and the small "trades" element among the homosexual men reflect a greater interest in whitecollar than in blue-collar jobs, or differences in apti-

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