ABSTRACT
The rising level of technical equipment, mechanization, and automation of production processes, which provides the material basis for the growth in number of skilled workers, imposes higher demands on workers' cultural and technical levels. Specialized knowledge and high levels of occupational training and general culture are becoming essential to the successful work of ever greater segments of the work force. In industry, the average educational level of women workers is somewhat higher than among men. The gap between the educational levels of women and men is narrowing because women with a low level of education are gradually leaving the work force due to age. It should be noted that problems of raising the general educational and occupational levels of women workers do not go unheeded at the leading industrial enterprises in the country. Social development plans of many industrial plants provide for specific measures to reduce female employment on night shifts.
