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Job Satisfaction. A less tangible
but nevertheless critical area of importance concerns the changes
in our follow-up study members’ satisfaction over the past five
years with various aspects of their jobs. Considering women first,
blacks continue to express significantly less satisfaction than
whites in the areas of pay and fringe benefits, sanctions received
when a mistake is made and respect from supervisors. On the other
hand, black women in 1997 are now as satisfied as whites with
their autonomy.
Among men, whites express greater satisfaction than blacks do
in the area of pay and fringe benefits. More positively, black
men today feel that they receive as much respect from their supervisors
as whites—an area of great disparity in 1992. In other areas
of job satisfaction including security, sanctions received when
a mistake is made, respect from subordinates and autonomy whites
and blacks are quite similar.
Table 43 shows that higher
proportions of black women than white women achieved their aspirations
as expressed five years ago. Two fifths of the blacks compared
to a quarter of the whites achieved their goals. Conversely, about
40 percent of the blacks and over half of the whites did not meet
their career aspirations.
Unfortunately, black men in the study relative to whites were
much less successful in achieving their aspirations. Thus, while
63 percent of white men met or exceeded their goals, only 41 percent
of the blacks were in similar circumstances.
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