Young women with disabilities often experience limited career options and opportunities. This study provides an overview and preliminary results from the "Paths 2 the Future" (P2F) curriculum designed to meet the unique career development needs of young women with disabilities. P2F includes 75 lessons covering topics of self-awareness,…

This handbook is intended as an informal guide for mature women returning to college or starting late. Chapter 1 describes the life patterns of women. Chapter 2 provides statistical information on working mothers, ages of women workers, educational achievement, jobs by sex, and women in labor unions and the labor force. Costs and benefits of jobs…

This illustrated workbook is designed to help young black women develop self-esteem and explore career options. Part I, "Who Am I?" comprises the following chapters: (1) "The Search for Self," exploring attitudes, feelings, values, and interests; (2) "How I Get Along with People," discussing interpersonal communication and language behavior; and…

The "Being a Special Person" segment of the Choices and Careers: Free to Choose program is based upon five areas of study; this document features summaries of the information in those five units along with the basic aims of each unit. "The Outside You" unit focuses on being natural and the importance of good health habits.…

This leaders' guide is for use in group sessions or individual meetings with parents of girls participating in the Choices & Careers: Free to Choose program. It is based upon units the girls study, including "The Outside You,""Your Money,""Food and You,""Alcoholism,""Coping with Parents," and…

Career education can contribute to new role definitions for women, although it is not explicitly designed for any particular segment of society but is directed at changing the whole educational system to benefit the entire population. There is an increasing separation between students and the world of work; career education is a revolutionary…

Following an overview of the amount and focus of the literature on occupational development of women, four major theories of vocational development are discussed in depth in part 1: Roe's theory of career choice; Ginzberg and associates' theory of vocational decision making, Super's theory of the development of self-concept, and Holland's theory…

Career education's goal of increasing career opportunities is admirable and sound, but the usual approach (interjecting career information into existing curricula) will not in itself increase students' opportunities, for existing factors limit students' perceptions of what constitutes a real career choice. The conflict between women's changed role…

Developed by the Lutheran Settlement House Women's Program, a community-based multi-service organization in a multi-racial, multi-culutral area of Philadelphia, this curriculum guide presents a practical approach to teaching basic reading skills. The curriculum materials, which are suitable for reproducing and handing out to students, combine…

This 72-hour curriculum is designed to meet the needs of single parents and displaced homemakers who are in the process of planning a career that will enable them to be economically self-sufficient. Nontraditional career exploration and sex-role stereotyping in career choices are addressed in the curriculum, which is based on the Adult Career…

This paper contains a unit of six career awareness lessons for use by elementary guidance counselors with fourth grade students. Prepared to be used with fourth graders in a middle class small community elementary school in Wisconsin, the unit is based on developmental needs that have been identified for this age group. It is intended to be both…