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Unlocking the Perceived Barriers to Nontraditional Employment.
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Stitt, Beverly A. – ATEA Journal, 1995
A study of 470 Job Training Partnership Act female trainees identified barriers to nontraditional employment: economic, physical, emotional, social, and life experience/education. The survey was also sent to 297 businesses. Results showed that nontraditional trainees do not perceive the same barriers as employers do, and suggestions were made to…
Descriptors: Adults, Employment Practices, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Females
Equity in the Midwest. A Report on the Implementation of Sex Equity in Vocational Education in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.
Wider Opportunities for Women, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1988
A study of the implementation of the Perkins Act in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin was conducted by women's education and employment advocates. State officials, service providers, and program participants involved in the sex equity provisions were interviewed and reports were reviewed. Among the findings were the following: (1) in all three…
Descriptors: Community Education, Displaced Homemakers, Education Work Relationship, Educational Improvement