Evaluated a career development intervention for gifted fifth-grade girls, designed to discourage the myth that women must choose between family and career. Results indicated program effectively changed students' attitudes toward personal role options, home, and family responsibilities. Suggests group counseling was an effective format. (JAC)

This annual report describes the activities carried out in the Comprehensive Career Development Program K-10 of the Akron (Ohio) Public Schools for the period July 1979-June 1980. Objectives of the program included implementing the K-10 career Education Program in a five-high school district, adding two additional districts, strengthening the…

Options was a two-year research and curriculum design project conducted at Dartmouth College (New Hampshire) under a grant for the Women's Educational Equity Act Program Staff. The project completed the following: assessment of career-related perceptions and self-defined needs of rural young people in five different rural regions (Northern New…

Initiated as an innovative approach to career development, the Women in the Technologies (WITT) program aimed at the elimination of barriers to career advancement arising from sex stereotype related problems on the job. The process involved (1) establishment of linkages with business and industrial organizations, (2) presentation of a "needs…