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Girls Can Too: A Qualitative Single Holistic Case Study Exploring Manufacturing as a Career Choice for Recent High School Female Graduates in Central Louisiana
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Donna P. Bailey – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The manufacturing industry is crucial to the United States economy, constituting more than 10% of the gross domestic product (National Association of Manufacturing [NAM], 2022). However, the sector faces challenges such as a shortage of skilled labor and underrepresentation of women, which threaten its sustainability (NAM, 2023). Various…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Career Choice, Females, Disproportionate Representation
To Comply or Not to Comply?: That Is Not the Question: A Multi-Content Analysis of Title IX Policies at Historically Black Land Grant Universities
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Shanita L. Pettaway – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) enforces, among other statutes, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. While Title IX is directed towards the prevention of discrimination in collegiate athletics, Title IX does not explicitly remedy only issues in college athletics. Rather, the statute's heart is a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Black Colleges
The Road to the Presidency: A Case Study of HBCU Organizational Culture and Its Impact on the Career Progression of Women of Color
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Smith, Akai Crystal – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The American workforce is currently experiencing an increased level of diversity in comparison to previous decades due to augmented representation of people of different races, socio-economic backgrounds and genders across sectors (Warner, 2014). However, there is one variable that has remained largely unchanged, the underrepresentation of African…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Organizational Culture, Career Development, College Faculty