This study focuses on the gender dimension of labour market transitions and its implications for policymaking in the areas of active labour market policies, career guidance, and skills development. The ETF initiated this research to map how activation and skills development policies are gaining importance in the neighbouring countries of the…

This study is an attempt to explore the perceptions of the public on women in higher education and employment, using data from the World Value Survey, had 90,350 respondents, of which 48.03% are male (N=43,391) and 51.87% are female (N=46,878). This study indicated that women, younger people, upper class people, religious people, and married…

This paper attempts to explore the connections between expanding female education and the participation of women in paid employment in Japan, China and India, three of Asia's largest economies. Analysis based on existing data and literature shows that despite the large expansion in educational access in these countries in the last half century,…

This paper is based on a survey that looks at destinations of females after they reach statutory school leaving age. It examines interview data with young women in and out of employment, at school or at college. It also looks briefly at the lack of explanatory models to understand the young women's situation. (Author/SSH)

A program is described which helps to introduce guidance counselors to technical career opportunities for women. (BB)

Reasons for the small number of women scientists are hypothesized and discussed. A partial solution to the problem is offered and suggestions for teachers are given. (MK)

Reports a workshop designed to encourage and motivate female science students, to create an awareness of the contributions women are making and can make to science and technology, and to encourage workshop participants to view themselves as potential professional women. Remarks on the three keynote speakers are included. (Author/MA)

A study was done to examine the differences among college students' perceptions of the shift in gender domination in selected occupations. Results indicate that the particular institution attended may affect perceptions. (JN)

This paper describes a training program for women designed to increase the number of women candidates for administrative openings (in Education), and to insure that graduates become sensitive to sex stereotyping so they will function as positive agents to eliminate its presence in schools. A total of 39 women during summers of 1975 and 1976…

A discussion of the changes needed as a result of the rapid increase in women entering, or desiring to enter, the labor force. Areas covered are women's educational and job placement needs, socioeconomic influences, and the need to "unstereotype" technical training and career counseling for female students and to "unstereotype" male and female…

Although women's roles in America had previously been confined to home and family, women in the 1960's began to look for professional fulfillment outside the home. A recent survey of 300 midlife Boston women reveals that women who are married, have children, and are in prestigious positions have the greatest sense of well-being. The women's…

The only woman in the first graduating class of the world's first school of journalism at the University of Missouri, Mary Paxton Keeley was offered a position as a special reporter for the "Kansas City Post" in 1910. As was typical for female journalists at the time, most of Paxton's assignments during her 15 months with the…

This annotated bibliography on sex role stereotyping in occupational education documents the background resources consulted during a project for the Cornell Institute for Occupational Education. It is divided into three sections: resources for and about secondary students (fourteen entries), resources for vocational and career educators…

Nine chapters emphasizing religious, domestic, and economic aspects of women in Southeast Asia are presented. In an introductory chapter, Penny Van Esterik discusses women and Buddhism, societal and domestic roles, occupational patterns, research on women in Southeast Asia, and Southeast Asia's past and future. In chapter 2, "Buddhism,…

Recent changes in the social and economic roles of women are examined. These changes affect the lives of the largest single group in the United States and have resulted from a movement aimed not only at increased access to society's resources and power, but also at a redefinition of the identity of American women. Topics reviewed include women in…