UNITED STATES OF AMERICA EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN IN Beauty Service WOMEN'S BUREAU BULLETIN NO. 260 • 1956 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, James P. Mitchell, Secretary WOMEN'S BUREAU, Mrs. Alice K. Leopold, Director U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON: 1956 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office Washington 25, D. C. Price 25 cents FOREWORD Beauty service is a promising occupational field for women, and there every indication that it will continue to be so. It ranks near the top in umber of women employed-fourteenth among 446 census occupational ems. It offers good opportunities for part-time work. It also affords >portunity for a woman to establish an independent business. This bulletin is one of a series of Women's Bureau reports on occupaonal opportunities for women. Like others in the series, it gives inforation on training, entrance requirements, the kind of work done and ›nditions on the job, earnings, and advancement in the occupation. New atures in this report are discussions of State wage and hour regulations pplying to beauty-shop employees, and of matters especially important > the woman who wants to open her own beauty shop. The report is designed to be helpful to women workers of all ages who e thinking of entering beauty service. It will assist counselors of women, oth in schools and in employment services. It contains information of alue to State officials, both on cosmetology boards and on minimum-wage oards. ALICE K. LEOPOLD |