Papers presented at the 1979 National Technical Education Conference. Includes: a perspective of technical education, aids in providing quality instruction, opportunities as technical education leaders, values in technical education, opportunities for females in engineering technology, equal access/equal opportunity, and the impact felt as a…

Lists sources that provide examples, case histories of other English majors, suggestions for other jobs, and additional resources for the job-seeking English major. (HOD)

Discusses the benefits of sex equity programs, sex equity legislation, and what Wisconsin is doing to achieve sex equity. Includes a list of resources. (JOW)

Home-based self-employed workers (n=46, including 35 women) viewed home work as a valuable nontraditional option, especially mothers who combined work and child care. Family-work conflicts and economic issues sometimes replicated negative, exploitative conditions of traditional workplaces. Gender, family status, resources, race/ethnicity, and…

Interviews with 10 women employed in trades revealed four significant factors in the choice of nontraditional occupations: perceived innate ability, strong sense of self, desire for independence, and role models, especially family. Formal career education/counseling was not a factor. Contrary to previous studies, only 3 of the 10 were firstborn or…

Summarizes research that shows men who choose female-dominated occupations possess many of characteristics of women in same jobs and are comfortable with their masculine sexuality (although they score lower in Bem's masculine identity than do traditional men). Presents framework to understand process of men's nontraditional career choice.…

A study of 470 Job Training Partnership Act female trainees identified barriers to nontraditional employment: economic, physical, emotional, social, and life experience/education. The survey was also sent to 297 businesses. Results showed that nontraditional trainees do not perceive the same barriers as employers do, and suggestions were made to…

Using grounded theory, interviews with 12 males elicited themes for their choice of a nursing career: (1) desire to care for others; (2) practical motivations related to job security and salary; and (3) feelings of power and empowerment, related both to their being male in a female-dominated occupation and to critical care issues. (SK)

Investigated Holland vocational-personality types, job satisfaction, and psychological dysfunction among 85 parish priests, 55 nonparish priests, and 235 women who aspire to, but are barred from, ordination in the Roman Catholic Church. Found women's Holland-type code was most similar to code of clergy member as assigned by Dictionary of Holland…

Identified and explored issues surrounding growing gender imbalance among professionals in student affairs. Interviews with 26 student affairs professionals revealed interrelationships and the collective impact of a variety of issues on student affairs professionals and student affairs' role within higher education. The complexity of the issue of…

Assistance with career goals and employment and positive role models were outcomes identified in interviews with 10 male home economics educators whose mentors were female. Half believed their mentors' expectations were the same for them as for other proteges. They experienced few problems typical of cross-gender mentoring. (SK)

Used data from 1982 New Beneficiary Survey and from Social Security Administration to trace experience of social workers and members of four other professional groups who started to receive Old Age Insurance benefits or became Medicare-only beneficiaries in 1980-81. Found that earnings capacity of social workers consistently lagged far behind two…

A qualitative study of female secondary agriculture teachers identified challenges they face in a field that is only 16% female. Opinions expressed about the choice to have a family, guilt about the family, discouragement or intent to leave the profession, and the need to maintain high-quality teaching and an exemplary home life indicate that the…

Research indicates that the family roles of men are slowly changing, with a small minority of those sampled having primary childcare/household duties. To examine the background, life satisfaction, motives, and personality traits of such men, 16 married, male adults, whose wives were employed outside the home, and who had over 50% of the…

According to previous research, achieving women display nontraditional personality traits and are influenced by affiliative motives. To examine the needs exhibited by professional women who have made significant achievements, 23 career women (physicians, attorneys, veterinarians, business women, politicians, and artists) completed the Edwards…