A research study in which 24 leading preservice teacher education textbooks are examined for degree of sex equity reveals a predominant attitude of imbalance and omission towards the role and contribution of females in American society and education. The textbooks are content analyzed for space allocation and treatment of sexism, sex differences…

Goals of a project to design a career awareness workshop for vocational-technical students included identifying and defining sex stereotypes and discrimination, increasing student awareness of stereotyping, increasing knowledge of career options, exposing students to non-traditional role models, and providing inservice training. A literature and…

A study was conducted to (1) document the expanding role of women in the U.S. Army and (2) determine whether soldiers in 1974 believed that certain military jobs were appropriate for women and whether those beliefs were related to respondent sex, rank, and expectation of leaving the army before retirement. An examination of army records revealed…

The author describes components of a sex-fairness activity that he developed in his schools: OINK (Observed Interest in Negating Knowledge), an instrument to show students their own sex bias; sex-based language discussion; transparencies identifying sex bias on television and elsewhere; and freedom training, a film on nontraditional vocations for…

A pilot program at Okalossa-Walton Junior College (Niceville, Florida) sought to increase the number of women in all its vocational areas. Brochures, posters and slide-tape presentations provided information for targeted groups in identified locations. One year after recruitment efforts began, enrollment went from two to twenty in drafting the…

This article highlights an industry/education partnership that has been highly successful in serving the intent of federal vocational legislation concerning sex equity. The project, Women's Access to Nuclear Technology (Project WANT), represents a transportable model for developing industry/education partnerships to achieve mutually beneficial…

Examined reasons underlying the reported sex differences in structural features of vocational schemas. Controlled for type of rated occupation in determining structural features, and for individual career orientation. Found only gender had a significant impact on structural features. Women showed higher levels of vocational integration, and men…

In its most sweeping endorsement of affirmative action and the first ruling explicitly upholding affirmative action for women, the Supreme Court has upheld voluntary plans that help qualified women and members of minority groups gain jobs traditionally dominated by white men. (Author/MSE)

This discussion on the lack of data concerning comparable worth concludes that efforts to design data collecting systems or even to tabulate and amass those data that already exist lag behind efforts to litigate and legislate comparable worth. The author discusses possible future scenarios on this subject. (CT)

Male students gave lower faculty ratings than female students, but their ratings for female faculty were high regardless of the field. Female students showed a bias against women faculty in traditional fields and for women faculty in nontraditional fields. (Author/RM)

Using a logit model of occupational attainment, researchers found that economically disadvantaged women who received nontraditional training were much less likely to be employed in male-dominated occupations and received lower hourly wages. Direct labor market discrimination seems to be responsible for the inhibited occupational attainment of…

Women in institutions of higher education who deserve special attention in advising situations include those with multiple responsibilities, those in under-represented fields, and reentry women. Factors that can help women be successful in an institutional setting are a supportive family and informal peer support groups. Stressors for women seem…

Results of study suggested that single female workers are evaluated favorably so long as they pursue sex-typical jobs, while female and single male workers are viewed much less favorably when they are in sex-atypical fields. (CMG)

Discusses a study of vocational graduates in nontraditional occupations to determine their sex role identities and work perceptions. Identifies attractors, barriers, and benefits of nontraditional work preparation and employment. (JOW)

Compared kindergarten children (N=24) who were exposed to nontraditional vocational role models and curricular materials and a control group. Results showed the treatment group was slightly less traditional in their vocational role preferences at the end of the 10-week treatment. (WAS)