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ERIC Number: EJ515752
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-0831-5493
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Women's Self-Ratings of Skills: Issues and Strategies for Intervention.
Reixach, Deborah
Guidance & Counselling, v11 n1 p3-7 Aut 1995
Discusses underestimation of women's skills as an issue of concern for all women and for socioeconomically disadvantaged women in particular. Factors contributing to underestimation are gender-biased expectations, socialization, gender-biased definitions of skills, discrimination, and low self-esteem. Presents interventions to increase skills awareness in disadvantaged women. (JBJ)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Adult Education, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Economically Disadvantaged, Employed Women, Employment Potential, Females, Foreign Countries, Intervention, Job Skills, Postsecondary Education, Sex Bias, Skill Analysis, Socialization
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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