TABLE XX. Percentage distribution of women workers in retail trade industries, by hourly earnings, and type and size of store, Arizona, February 1954

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TABLE XX.-Percentage distribution of women workers in retail trade industries, by hourly earnings, and type and size of store, Arizona, February 1954-Con.

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TABLE XX.-Percentage distribution of women workers in retail trade industries, by hourly earnings, and type and size of store, Arizona, February 1954—Con.

HOURS WORKED IN RETAIL TRADE ARIZONA, 1954

Four-fifths, or 7,200, of the 9,000 women employed in retail trade stores were designated as full-time workers. All but about 5 percent, or 6,800 of these fulltime workers, worked more than 32 hours a week during the period of the survey. This number was augmented by about 300 "part-time" workers, making a total of 7,100 women who actually worked more than 32 hours during the survey week. Of the 1,800 women who worked 32 hours or less during the survey period, roughly four-fifths of them were regular part-time workers, and the remainder (about 400) were full-time workers who had worked a short week. Number and distribution of full- and part-time workers

Among women who worked more than 32 hours during the week, almost all of whom were regular full-time workers, there was considerable variation in the concentrations by hours worked in the various types of stores. In department stores,

for example, almost 30 percent of the women worked a 40-hour week. In limited-
price stores, although the hours concentration among the women employed more
than 32 hours was not as noticeable as in other types of stores, 20 percent of the
women worked an "over 40, under 44-hour" week. In general merchandise
stores, more than a third of the women were concentrated in the "over 40, under
44 hours" group.
In food, liquor, and drug stores, half of the women worked a
48-hour week. In the remaining-miscellaneous retail trade-group, about 30
percent of the women worked a 40-hour week.

Limited-price stores had the highest proportion-almost 30 percent of women employees who worked 32 hours or less during the week. Only about a fifth of the women employees in other types of stores worked 32 hours or less during the week, except in the furniture and miscellaneous retail trade group where only 15 percent of the women were on a short workweek.

The average work week for all women in the retail trade industries in Arizona in February 1954 was 41 hours. However, a fourth of these women worked a 48-hour week or more; and in food, liquor, and drug stores, more than half of the women worked 48 hours.

TABLE XXII.-Percentage distribution of women workers in retail trade industries, by weekly earnings, and type of store, Arizona, February 1954