This article explores how TCTELA's 2024 Teachers of the Year forged the future through their literacy teaching at the elementary, middle school, high school, and college levels. Each essay captures how they understand their work as literacy educators and intentionally educate their students toward a brighter future amid trying local contexts. The…

Purpose: This paper aims to discuss the term intersectional trap. This is defined as the act of saying blanket statements to describe a race or group of individuals without considering variations of experience within the population. The paper will end with recommendations for research focusing on qualitative studies that explore the lived…

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)

This letter to the future president of the United States urges her to conduct herself as president as if she were a role model of an educated person and the nation's principal teacher. This obligation entails the need always to be clear about the reasons why her decisions are taken, the evidence or values that support those decisions, the…

This booklet contains profiles of 15 persons working in jobs nontraditional for their sex in the vicinity of Muskogee, Oklahoma. The one-page profiles are all written by the persons holding the jobs and include such information as educational background, job searches, acceptance on the job, and future plans. Photographs of each person on the job…

Much has been written about the glass ceiling and pay differentials in higher and further education (HE, FE) for women academics (McTavish and Miller 2009, Rees 2007) but very little about discrepancies for women "professional managers" within UK higher education. Professional managers as a term needs to be defined as universities call…

Apprenticeship training programs in Hawaii offer an effective means for men and women to attain skills necessary for productive work. Hawaii's two sources of apprenticeship training are the Apprenticeship Division of the Hawaii Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard (PHNS). Despite the efforts of these…

In the socio-economic context of Bangladesh, involvement of women in agriculture is very important. It would be easier to control rural-urban migration by engaging women in agricultural activities to a greater extent. Women play a vital role in agricultural production throughout the Bangladesh, making a significant contribution to the basic…

Until women working in all skilled trades becomes an everyday occurrence, career and school counselors owe it to all women to make the participation of women in the trades a top priority. (Author)

Presents examples of students who have chosen unusual career paths: males in female-dominated occupations, females in male-dominated occupations, and a few women in or aspiring to management positions within traditional fields. (CT)

The use of technology has increased exponentially in recent years, with accompanying employment growth in technical fields. Despite this demand, there is a well-documented underrepresentation of females in technical fields. The Technology Adventures Program provides female high school students with information about careers in technology. (JOW)

Women workers are establishing an identity for themselves in the traditionally male-dominated work world of mechanics, carpenters, construction workers, technicians, and engineers, drawn by incentives ranging from higher pay to training and advancement opportunities. Of the over 12.5 million women employed in industrial and service occupations,…

Discusses the aggressive recruitment of women by engineering schools and firms, progress in eliminating sex discrimination barriers, and lingering sex bias problems in the field. Offers suggestions to new women engineering graduates. (SK)

Discusses the problems faced by women entering nontraditional occupations. Includes an annotated list of resources. (JOW)

This hermeneutic phenomenological inquiry of the meaning of choosing to teach explores the experience of the author, her grandmother, her grandmother's cousin, and her great-great aunt. It highlights women's limited career choices, the need to nurture, and the concept of responding to a calling. (SK)