Four African-American women, participants in PROBE (Potential Reentry Opportunities in Business and Education), a program to prepare low-income women in Pennsylvania for jobs through computer and communications skills training, were interviewed about their attitudes toward learning. The four were single-parent welfare recipients in their late 20s…

This book, which presents an overview of 12 diverse populations, was written to expose practitioners such as counselors, teachers, college faculty, mental health workers, and social workers to the unique and genuine characteristics of subgroups within the United States and to effectively assist these practitioners as they work with clients and/or…

This handbook on women workers, revised from the 1975 edition, provides current data related to worklife experiences of women and their economic and legal status, especially during the last half of the 1970s. In addition, historical data provide a perspective on trends in the labor force, experiences of women, and the effects of legislation on…