This study explores the extent to which college and university faculty supplement their basic institutional salaries, and whether, after controlling for differences in human capital, productivity, and structural characteristics, the tendency to supplement salary and the amount of supplemental earnings varies between women and men. Data for the…

Field testing of learning materials developed by the Counselors Expanding Career Options (CECO) Project, specifically The Whole Person Book, was conducted during the 1977-1978 school year in 72 secondary schools in Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, and Colorado. The field test design established three comparison groups of secondary counselors and teachers.…

"Shortchanging Girls, Shortchanging America," a report about the interrelationships among self-esteem, education, and career aspirations in adolescent girls and boys in today's society, received widespread attention on its release. The American Association of University Women asked the Academy for Educational Development to review the…

Louisiana reviewed its progress toward achieving sex equity in vocational education (VE) in 1995-1996. The review included the following: comparison of 1995-1996 and prior student enrollments in programs that are nontraditional for students' genders; identification of practices, barriers, and achievements of special groups in the area of sex…

Differences in the earnings of male and female graduates of technical and further education (TAFE) programs in Australia were examined in a study that focused primarily on graduates working full-time. Data were collected from the 1997 Graduate Destination Survey and from a series of focus groups and interviews with women TAFE graduates working in…