ECONOMIC

Activities of the Advisory Committee on theEconomic Role of WomenIn September 1972 the President announced the establishment of theAdvisory Committee on the Economic Role of Women to provide a formalmechanism for improving the information and analysis available to policymakers about the economic problems women encounter and for assuringthat the economic interests of women are given appropriate weight in policyconsiderations.In January 1973 the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers,who is also Chairman of the Advisory Committee, appointed the followingpersons from the private sector to serve on the committee:Jacqueline BrandwynneCasey EikeCynthia EpsteinStephen FullerJulia GreerJacqueline GutwilligRuth HandlerLenore HersheyGertrude HimmelfarbE. Marie JohnsonM. Jane KaySister Collette MahoneyJacob MincerArthur RasmussenBernice SandierRuth WashingtonAlso serving on the committee are the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretaryof Commerce, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Health, Education,and Welfare, and Anne Armstrong, Counsellor to the President.The committee met four times during 1973. The first meeting, held inJanuary, was in part organizational and in part a review of Chapter 4 ofthe 1973 Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers, which discussesthe economic role of women. At this meeting the committee memberssuggested several topics that they felt were particularly relevant to women'seconomic opportunities.The meeting of April 30 was devoted to a discussion of career developmentfor women. Participating in the discussion were Dr. Sidney J. Marland,Jr., then Assistant Secretary for Education in the Department ofHealth, Education, and Welfare; Robert J. Brown, Associate ManpowerAdministrator for the U.S. Employment Service; and Dr. Bennetta B.Washington, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Manpower.Dr. Helen Astin (University of California, Los Angeles), andDr. Cynthia Epstein (Queens College, New York), who is also a com-229