ABSTRACT
Phyllis Ann Wallace's work focused primarily on the labor market and occupational trends; consequently, as a labor economist. She was concerned both with the plight of women in the labor market and the plight of black women. She covered topics ranging from affirmative action to collective bargaining and employment patterns in the pharmaceutical industry. Wallace was born in Baltimore, Maryland and graduated from Baltimore's Frederick Douglass High School. Wallace saw barriers to the advancement of women in international markets. The solution was to have more employment training programs. Wallace was a pioneer and made a variety of contributions to economics. Her most noteworthy contributions have been in the areas of workplace discrimination. Wallace made key contributions in the areas of research on the status of African-Americans in urban poverty neighborhoods and on patterns of employment in the private sector.
