This article uses research which focuses on women and occupations to discuss three questions: (1) Why should women coach? (2) What factors exclude women? and (3) Why might the number of women coaches continue to decline? (IAH)

A workshop on female dentists in management is summarized. Topics included female dentists' experience in a predominantly male profession, rejection of feminism as a political movement, need to improve female dentists' opportunities, and gender differences in management style. An evolution in women's issues since the 1960s is seen. (MSE)

Argues that, given the current employment situation in Nigeria, library education should be directed at educating and training professionals who can exploit their potential in several information-related organizations, rather than being tied to the library. The implications for curricula requirements of existing library and information science…

A survey of 562 Illinois secondary students and 45 business teachers found limited acceptance by students (especially males) of administrative support occupations. Teachers had misconceptions of students' attitudes toward these occupations. Influential factors were stereotypes, perceptions of low pay, and the attitude that computer use was a male…

Analyzed women's enrollment levels in mathematics, engineering, and computer science in Canadian universities and the change in these levels between 1972 and 1995. Found vastly different patterns of enrollment in the three disciplines (for example, computer science enrollment did not increase at all during the studied period), suggesting that…

Reviews career-related issues for employees with diverse characteristics and job status. Evaluates 44 psychometrically sound career-assessment instruments for their usefulness in dealing with issues. (SK)

This study examined the nontraditional career choice goals of 302 Mexican American adolescent men using an extended version of Lent, Brown, and Hacketts (1994) career choice model. It was hypothesized that several background contextual variables (e.g., acculturation level, parental support, perceived occupational gender barriers) would predict…

The author describes components of a sex-fairness activity that he developed in his schools: OINK (Observed Interest in Negating Knowledge), an instrument to show students their own sex bias; sex-based language discussion; transparencies identifying sex bias on television and elsewhere; and freedom training, a film on nontraditional vocations for…

This article highlights an industry/education partnership that has been highly successful in serving the intent of federal vocational legislation concerning sex equity. The project, Women's Access to Nuclear Technology (Project WANT), represents a transportable model for developing industry/education partnerships to achieve mutually beneficial…

Examined reasons underlying the reported sex differences in structural features of vocational schemas. Controlled for type of rated occupation in determining structural features, and for individual career orientation. Found only gender had a significant impact on structural features. Women showed higher levels of vocational integration, and men…

In its most sweeping endorsement of affirmative action and the first ruling explicitly upholding affirmative action for women, the Supreme Court has upheld voluntary plans that help qualified women and members of minority groups gain jobs traditionally dominated by white men. (Author/MSE)

This discussion on the lack of data concerning comparable worth concludes that efforts to design data collecting systems or even to tabulate and amass those data that already exist lag behind efforts to litigate and legislate comparable worth. The author discusses possible future scenarios on this subject. (CT)

Male students gave lower faculty ratings than female students, but their ratings for female faculty were high regardless of the field. Female students showed a bias against women faculty in traditional fields and for women faculty in nontraditional fields. (Author/RM)

Using a logit model of occupational attainment, researchers found that economically disadvantaged women who received nontraditional training were much less likely to be employed in male-dominated occupations and received lower hourly wages. Direct labor market discrimination seems to be responsible for the inhibited occupational attainment of…

Results of study suggested that single female workers are evaluated favorably so long as they pursue sex-typical jobs, while female and single male workers are viewed much less favorably when they are in sex-atypical fields. (CMG)