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Miller, Mev – Feminist Collections, 1999
The contemporary women's movement, communicating largely through the written word, mistakenly ignored or failed to notice the following: (1) almost one quarter of American women (23%) had severely limited literacy skills; (2) for female heads of households, 75% of those with less than a high school diploma lived in poverty; (3) nearly 40% of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Access to Information, Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators
Idaho State Div. of Professional-Technical Education, Boise. – 1999
Idaho's displaced homemaker program exists to reduce the incidence of poverty among the 59,498 displaced homemakers (according to the 1990 census) and 22,147 single mothers in the state. Of those who participated in Idaho's displaced homemaker programs in fiscal year 1999 (FY1999), 852 (33%) earned less than $5,000 annually. Yet, only 95 received…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Correctional Education, Displaced Homemakers
Hodge, Sharon – 2001
Profiles of 104 welfare recipients in Georgia were examined to identify social indicators and cognitive variables that influenced work role participation. Three instruments were administered the Career Thought Inventory, the Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale-Short Form, and the demographic profile and participation scale of the Salience…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Analysis of Variance, Behavior Development
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