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…

The Committee on Affirmative Action was charged by the Illinois Board of Higher Education in March 1975 to address two topics: (1) development of positive affirmative action programs at all levels of higher education employment, and (2) development of programs to increase minority and women student enrollment. The committee focused its study on…

The rapid impoverishment of women and their children has serious implications for the American family and for the nation. This report includes testimony before the Illinois Commission on the Status of Women from national and state representatives of women's organizations, social services agencies, advocacy groups, and civil rights organizations. A…