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Bell, Sara L.; Mayhew, Carol O. – 1980
The Vocational Education Amendments of 1976 mandate that sex bias and sex stereotyping be eliminated from all vocational education programs. In business and office occupations programs, the problems have been centered around increasing the number of male students in the program, encouraging women to move into management positions and other upper…
Descriptors: Business Education, Clerical Occupations, Competency Based Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Download full textBell, Sara L.; Mayhew, Carol O. – 1980
The Vocational Education Amendments of 1976 mandate that sex bias and sex stereotyping be eliminated from all vocational education programs. In business and office occupations programs, the problems have been centered around increasing the number of male students in the program, encouraging women to move into management positions and other upper…
Descriptors: Business Education, Case Studies, Competency Based Education, Data Processing Occupations
Bell, Sara L.; Mayhew, Carol O. – 1980
The Vocational Education Amendments of 1976 mandate that sex bias and sex stereotyping be eliminated from all vocational education programs. In business and office occupations programs, the problems have been centered around increasing the number of male students in the program, encouraging women to move into management positions and other upper…
Descriptors: Accounting, Bookkeeping, Business Education, Case Studies
Minnesota State Commission on the Economic Status of Women, St. Paul. – 1986
This report provides information about the status of male and female students and staff in Minnesota high school vocational courses during the 1984-85 school year. The information is intended to enhance equity efforts by measuring progress and indicating areas needing attention. Narrative and tables or charts illustrate vocational enrollment,…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Business Education, Distributive Education
Green, Eileen; And Others – 1993
This international collection of essays brings together two important and growing areas of research and debate: the sociology of gender relations in the workplace and the expanding body of interdisciplinary research into the design of computer systems. Feminists, computer scientists, and sociologists explore the impact of gender relations upon…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Computer System Design, Employed Women
Gaskell, Jane – 1983
Working-class high school girls choose courses for a variety of reasons, both consciously and subconsciously, and use conventional attitudes to justify their choices to themselves and others, according to working-class girls who volunteered to be interviewed during their free periods in Vancouver (British Columbia) high schools. The girls cited…
Descriptors: Business Education, Career Choice, Clerical Occupations, Courses
Jolly, Sue, Comp.; Forrester, Jeanne, Comp. – 1981
This manual is designed to teach teachers how to incorporate sex fair practices in their vocational education classrooms. The manual contains three sections. The first section, A Look at Where We Are, contains seven activities for teacher self-assessment of attitudes toward sex roles and sex fairness and a paradigm for assessing influencing…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Audiovisual Aids, Classroom Environment
Rutgers, The State Univ., New Brunswick, NJ. Douglass Coll. – 1981
A project was conducted to identify some of the factors that influence male high school students to elect nontraditional vocational programs: home economics-related occupations, health occupations, cosmetology, and business and office practices. It was proposed that this information could be used in the career guidance, recruitment, and retention…
Descriptors: Aptitude, Business Education, Career Choice, Cosmetology
Bell, Sara L.; Mayhew, Carol O. – 1980
The Vocational Education Amendments of 1976 mandate that sex bias and sex stereotyping be eliminated from all vocational education programs. In business and office occupations programs, the problems have been centered around increasing the number of male students in the program, encouraging women to move into management positions and other upper…
Descriptors: Business Education, Competency Based Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Females
Robinson, Gail; And Others – 1982
This report presents statistical data on the status of sex equity in vocational education programs in California. Tables and graphs show enrollment in secondary and postsecondary vocational programs by sex and vocational areas for the years 1973-74 to 1977-78. Data for the report were gathered by a data collection system used by the California…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agricultural Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Disabilities
Imel, Susan – 1989
To assess the effect of the efforts to encourage the selection of nontraditional occupations, Vetter examined the extent of change in enrollment patterns of girls and women in vocational education for the period 1972-82. In the traditionally male programs of agricultural, technical, and trade and industry education, the number and percentage of…
Descriptors: Displaced Homemakers, Educational Research, Enrollment Rate, Enrollment Trends
Middletown Public Schools, CT. – 1983
This volume outlines the requirements and content of a second-year course in allied health occupations education that is designed to provide students with background informational material and practical skills used in various health fields. Addressed in the individual units of the course are the following topics: safety; ethical and legal…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Allied Health Occupations Education, Behavioral Objectives, Career Choice
Mogensen, Vernon L. – 1996
This book explains how the use of video display terminals (VDTs) has been detrimental to women in the work force and has led to widespread health and safety problems. Chapter 1 discusses the development and scope of occupational illnesses associated with VDT work. Chapter 2 analyzes the power relationship between labor and capital in the office…
Descriptors: Cancer, Employed Women, Federal Government, Government Role
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. Panel on Technology and Women's Employment. – 1986
These proceedings contain presentations (speeches, discussions, papers) from a conference on how office automation is affecting the work lives and employment future of clerical workers. They include a "Welcome to the [National] Academy [of Sciences]" (Roslyn Feldberg), "Opening Remarks" (Lenora Cole Alexander), and "Goals…
Descriptors: Automation, Clerical Occupations, Clerical Workers, Conference Proceedings
Bell, Sara L.; Mayhew, Carol O. – 1980
The Vocational Education Amendments of 1976 mandate that sex bias and sex stereotyping be eliminated from all vocational education programs. In business and office occupations programs, the problems have been centered around increasing the number of male students in the program, encouraging women to move into management positions and other upper…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Business Education, Case Studies, Competency Based Education
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