Two thousand one hundred and fifty-nine female workers and 236 female ex-workers associated with several British electronics firms were given a forced-choice questionnaire and unstructured interview, to investigate their attitudes to various aspects of their jobs. Twenty-one percent of the present workers and 36% of the ex-workers expressed overall dissatisfaction with their jobs, which were of a highly rationalized type. An analysis of their responses indicated the overriding importance of the actual work done as a determinant of job dissatisfaction. An analysis of the reasons for leaving given by the exworkers indicated that voluntary labor turnover resulted mainly from job dissatisfaction.
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