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Download full textWichowski, Chester P.; DuMond, Doreen C. – 1980
A pilot study was conducted to identify sex role factors which could affect the search for employment and the adjustment to employment for vocational graduates in selected occupational areas. Target employment areas were identified through a review of occupations with a disproportionate composition by one sex or the other. These included…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Employment Patterns, Employment Problems, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
DOLAN, ELEANOR F.; AND OTHERS – 1966
THIS PROJECT DETERMINED SUCCESSFUL COUNSELING TECHNIQUES AND THE LENGTH OF TIME NECESSARY TO PREPARE EMPLOYMENT COUNSELORS TO WORK WITH WOMEN 35 TO 54 YEARS OLD, AND PRESENTS A GUIDE TO HELP OTHERS INTERESTED IN SUCH A PROGRAM. RESEARCH WAS CARRIED OUT BY A DIRECTOR, THREE FACULTY MEMBERS WHO PLANNED AND PRESENTED THE EIGHT WEEK CURRICULUM,…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adult Students, Career Counseling, Career Guidance
Hammond, Edith; Schneider, Mark – 1978
A study was conducted to determine the extent and level of employment of minorities and women as sworn personnel in the Kentucky Bureau of State Police. Data was collected by means of personal interviews with Bureau officials, troopers, police personnel board members, and representatives of civic and nonprofit organizations as well as from Bureau…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Court Litigation, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices
Employment Standards Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. Women's Bureau. – 1976
The purpose of this workshop was to review research needs already identified, to determine other areas in which research needs are not being met, and to establish priorities among these areas. The recommendations which were made on subjects such as part-time employment, career patterns, upward mobility, and equal pay form a broad base on which…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Careers, Employed Women, Employment
Peer reviewedArnold, Faye W. – Urban Review, 1993
Using interview data from 42 working, lower- and underclass African-American female college students, this article challenges the primacy of the cultural argument that educational failure of African-American women is primarily the result of their adherence to oppositional cultural forms and a preindustrial sense of time that inhibits success in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, College Students, Educationally Disadvantaged
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1980
This document contains the proceedings of a high-level conference on the Employment of Women, attended by labor ministers and other high officials of countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Delegates to the conference adopted a 14-point declaration pledging themselves to achieve equality of…
Descriptors: Adults, Affirmative Action, Economic Development, Employed Women
Sexton, Patricia Cayo – 1977
Information regarding women and work learned mainly, but not exclusively, through research and development (R&D) projects sponsored by the Employment and Training Administration's Office of Research and Development (ETA-ORD) is reviewed, and the future directions of policy on women are explored. The first chapter briefly summarizes two schools…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices
Tobin, Nancy; Wilson, Barbara Lazarus – 1975
One of the products developed by the Home and Community-Based Career Education Project, the booklet focuses on the concerns of women who want or need to begin or resume a career. It describes today's working woman, examines her options, and presents practical suggestions for overcoming obstacles in planning for and implementing career decisions.…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Development
Displaced Homemakers Network, Washington, DC. – 1989
This study was conducted to determine how many workers are in low-wage jobs; their characteristics and changes in their characteristics over time; the characteristics of the low-wage jobs; gender, sex, and racial factors influencing participation in low-wage jobs; and the relationship of low-wage work to family poverty and welfare receipt. The…
Descriptors: Adults, Asian Americans, Blacks, Education Work Relationship
Council on the Economic Status of Women, St. Paul, Minn. – 1977
The purpose of this report, based on testimony presented to the Council on the Economic Status of Women, is to explore the factors contributing to economic and psychological hardship for large numbers of women seeking employment in Minnesota. This report examines women's preparation and opportunities for employment and specifically addresses…
Descriptors: Career Change, Educational Opportunities, Elementary Secondary Education, Employed Women
Dunne, Faith – 1979
Rural American women number well over 25 million and represent all socio-economic and ethnic classifications, yet they share a conservative orientation towards sex roles and appropriate life styles, characteristic social and geographic isolation, and the dilemma of how to manage the traditional demands of rural culture and the contemporary…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Career Development, Educational Needs, Employment Problems
Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1977
Information on the characteristics of working women in the United States and changing trends over the past quarter century are presented in this databook. (The primary source of the data is the Current Population Survey, which is conducted monthly for the Bureau of Labor Statistics by the Bureau of the Census.) Part 1 of the databook provides…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Educational Experience, Employed Women, Employment Experience
Mott, Frank L.; Shaw, Lois B. – 1978
A study was conducted on the transition to adulthood among women, age fourteen through twenty-four, who were high school dropouts or who did not attend college immediately after high school. Data for 1968-73 was gathered in interviews and from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience. The information obtained was related to the…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Blacks, Child Rearing, Comparative Analysis
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Principal Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. – 1995
One of a series of studies on the development of technical and vocational education in the member states of UNESCO, this report profiles the educational system in Thailand. The eight parts of the document provide information about the following: educational policy, training modes and systems, planning and management of the technical vocational…
Descriptors: College Programs, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Philosophy
Coudroglou, Aliki – 1986
Prepared at the request of Arizona Governor Bruce Babbit, this report documents the state of poverty among women in Arizona and recommends an action plan that will alleviate their poor economic status. Discussion focuses on three factors identified as influencing conditions of poverty experienced by women: changing family structure, the labor…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Divorce, Employment Problems, Family Problems
