Describes Project ENOVATE (Exploring Nontraditional Occupations in Vocational and Technical Education), which provided field-based business and industry experience for 70 Arizona counselors. The training focused on career awareness, exploration, assessment, and decision making in new, emerging, and nontraditional areas. (JAC)

In rating the appropriateness of nontraditional jobs for men and women, indications are that students' attitudes can be changed by exposure to nontraditional models. The study of written job descriptions which were rated by students analyzes male and female sex-typed attitudes and beliefs about appropriateness of gender to career. (CM)

Explored the relationships between network variables and level of self-valuing within a group of women who demonstrated interest in careers traditionally associated with males. The major focus was on the differential importance of male-referenced versus female-referenced variables in predicting level of self-regard within such a group. (Author/PAS)

Compared college women's scores for criterion-related validity and sex balance on the Strong Campbell Interest Inventory and UNIACT. On both inventories, scores on Enterprising, Conventional, Artistic and Social themes were most consistent with occupational choices. Subjects choosing Investigative and Realistic occupational areas obtained…

Investigated whether Black adolescent females (N=32) have higher levels of occupational aspiration than do White adolescent females (N=32), and if talented Black adolescent females aspired to more nontraditional occupations for women. Results indicated no difference in levels of aspiration or in the traditionality of occupational preferences. (RC)

Describes some characteristics of women interested in skilled trades careers. Demonstrates counselor attitudes and responses in counseling women who are interested in nontraditional careers, including the direct-discount approach, the rational protective approach, the subversive-support approach, and the expansive-facilitating approach. (RC)

Vocational and technical schools are now preparing many women for trade and craft work. Vocational educators should be aware of myths that have persisted concerning women in the work force and also of legal and economic implications of equal employment opportunity for women. (JOW)

Presents job employment patterns in blue-collar occupations for women and proposes a model designed to interest women in nontraditional occupations and provide support networks for women both during and after formal skills training. (MER)

Rural girls, answering questions concerning educational and occupational aspirations, showed significantly higher educational aspiration, the same or higher occupational aspiration, and equal ranges of job choice, relative to boys. The results are discussed with respect to previous findings, and to status attainment models. (Author)

Data from 525 professionals and semiprofessionals were used to demonstrate that one's sex is a more important factor than occupational competencies for persons in opposite-sex-dominated occupations. The findings suggest that opposite-sex colleagues tend to ignore competence in lieu of one's sex. (Author/SK)

Describes a model integration process whereby personnel managers can deal effectively with the accelerated movement of women into nontraditional blue-collar jobs. (SK)

Results indicated that women anticipated they would feel more comfortable with counselors who facilitated nontraditional career exploration than did men. Women evaluated traditional and nontraditional clients similarly. Men evaluated the traditional client more favorably regarding academic achievement. (Author/BEF)

Responses from 194 of 315 Georgia vocational education personnel in technical institutes showed positive perceptions of female participation in nontraditional programs. Gender and current position significantly influenced those attitudes: females were more positive than males and counselors were more likely to promote female participation than…

Investigates the theory that differences in well-being and emotional distress may be a function of gender-role socialization--especially the masculine sex role orientation. Findings indicate that sex role socialization is related to differences in occupational strain and coping, and that the masculine orientation has adaptive significance for the…

A causal model which examines factors influencing women's choices of quantitative majors suggests self-rating regarding math/science ability is a primary variable. SAT-Math scores, family background, and the number of high school science courses are also seen as influential and predictive. In addition these factors affect specific choice of major.…