This comprehensive review of the public system of occupational education and job training for women in the United States focuses on education and training for occupations that require less than a four-year college degree. Chapter 1, "Job Training for Women: The Problem in a Policy Context" (Harlan, Steinberg), sketches an outline of job training and occupational education in the United States. Three chapters in Part 1 expand the description of several separate training systems and elaborate on general themes of Chapter 1. Chapters include: "Women and Federal Job Training Policy" (Harlan); "The Vocational Education Option for Women" (Vetter); and "Job Training Opportunities for Women in the U.S. Armed Forces" (Devilbiss). Part 2 describes a diverse set of training strategies, which reflect the needs of different groups of women in different parts of the country who seek training. Chapters include: "Displaced Homemakers in the Employment and Training (ET) System" (Miller); "Employment Services for Teenage Mothers" (Polit); "Women and Public Service Employment: Case Study in Connecticut" (Durbin, O'Brien); "Office Automation Training: An Empowerment Approach" (Greenbaum, Watson); "Supporting Women's Self-Employment: A New Training Option" (Gould et al.); and "Training Women for Jobs in Rural Economies: A Southern Experience" (Lilly). Part 3 reports on the state of knowledge in the field of training in nontraditional occupations. Chapters include: "Apprenticeship: A Route to the High-Paying Skilled Trades for Women?" (Glover); "Physical Training as a Strategy for Integrating Municipal Uniformed Services" (Chertos, Phillips); "Expanding Occupational Choices in Michigan's Secondary Vocational Education" (Giese); and "Nontraditional Training for Women: Effective Programs, Structural Barriers, and Political Hurdles" (Haignere, Steinberg). Chapters in Part 4 take perspectives that generally agree with the notion that women's participation in education, training, and employment programs is a route to self-sufficiency: "Work Programs for Welfare Recipients" (Gueron); "Job Search Strategies for Women on Welfare" (Goldman); "Work, Training, and Welfare Reform in Massachusetts: The ET Choices Program" (Werner); and "Denying Independence: Barriers to the Education of Women on AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children)" (Gittell, Moore). The two chapters in Part 5 focus on the relation between public employment and training policy and the private labor market: "Management Training Strategies in High Tech Electronics" (Goldstein) and "New Directions for Employment Policy" (Osterman). Contributors' biographies and an index are appended. (YLB)