(Subcommittee on the Employment of Women 1983) showed that women were underpromoted in both the research and administrative career streams. As noted in the Subcommittee's Report (1983: 12), in the junior research stream, 'there is a tendency for women to be preferentially assigned to work which is repetitive and/or routine,
offers little hope for promotion, and is less securely funded'. Accord- ingly, a decision was made to use perceptual measures of job-related gender discrimination, as these pertained to both day-to-day interaction and promotion.
Two sets of items were used to measure women respondents' perceptions of job-related discrimination. The first set measured inter alia, perceived discrimination on a day-to-day basis. Here respondents were presented with a number of work situations and asked whether, in the previous three years, they had experienced favourable, irritating or very irritating