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Cantrell, Patty – Ms., 1996
Despite the small numbers being hired, many women trying to increase their income or get off of welfare believe that the skilled trades are the answer. Construction Readiness Education for Women is a training program funded by the Missouri Women's Council that is designed to attract women into the trades. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adults, Blue Collar Occupations, Females, Nontraditional Occupations
Techniques: Making Education and Career Connections, 1997
Suggests that educators and employers are becoming more aware of their responsibilities to recruit women into nontraditional careers as well as to ease their transition. Provides stories that bring sexual discrimination into human focus and highlights solutions to this very real problem. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adults, Education Work Relationship, Females, Nontraditional Occupations
Peer reviewedGethman, Barton R. – Public Personnel Management, 1987
In this analytical essay, the author examines the arguments of comparable worth advocates and explores the notion of an inherently sex-biased job market. (Author)
Descriptors: Adults, Comparable Worth, Employed Women, Employment Practices
De Sanctis, Vincent, Comp. – 1980
The four papers in this document consider alternative programs and innovative models and techniques concerned with career change and its impact on vocational education. In the first paper, Jo Shuchat addresses the issue of what vocational education is or is not doing to accommodate the increasing interest women have for nontraditional job…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Change, Career Guidance, Computer Oriented Programs
Download full textFederal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC. – 1980
This publication provides information on issues surrounding the entry of women into the fire service. Chapter 1 focuses on the "Women in the Fire Service" seminar held on August 1979. It covers issues and recommendations for programs designed to facilitate the effective use of women. Other sections contain seminar participant opinions on the issue…
Descriptors: Adults, Employed Women, Employment Level, Employment Opportunities
Joint Economic Committee, Washington, DC. – 1984
Testimony from a congressional hearing on the dual role women play as wage earners and as mothers is presented. Other focuses of the hearing include what is being done and what needs to be done by the public and private sectors to facilitate the entry of women into a broad range of occupations, including higher paid nontraditional areas.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Vocational Education, Adults, Day Care
National Commission for Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1981
The National Commission for Employment Policy has examined ways that the United States federal government could improve the economic situation of disadvantaged women. In particular, the Commission examined, during 1980, the role of education and employment and training programs in helping women to prepare for better paying occupations, and then…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adults, Apprenticeships, Blacks
