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Ensuring Quality School-to-Work Opportunities for Young Women. A Working Paper Released in Cooperation with the American Youth Policy Forum.

Milgram, Donna; Watkins, Kristin – 1994

Research conducted by Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW) in 1993 confirmed the following: young women are still concentrated in traditionally female training areas and are still virtually absent from technical and high-wage training areas; discrepancies between males' and females' wage and unemployment levels are greatest among individuals who do…

Descriptors: Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship

ESEA: Educating the Forgotten Half. Hearing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on Examining Various Strategies for Transforming the Forgotten Half into the Indispensable Foundation of the 21st Century Workforce and for Making Secondary Education the Centerpiece of Those Strategies. United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session.

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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. – 1999

This document records the oral and written testimony from a 1999 Senate Committee hearing on "the forgotten half"--young people who do not continue their education past high school and, in many cases, do not finish high school. Witnesses testified that there is a great need for persons with technical skills to fill existing and projected…

Descriptors: Blacks, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention