A sports columnist acclaims the employment of girls at race tracks as grooms, exercise boys, and hot walkers." (Author)

Counselor responses to 25 factual questions about women and work are analyzed, revealing that some counselors are misinformed and that there are impressive sex differences in information. (Author)

Responses of college men from four curricular areas are compared regarding the amount of career involvement they prefer for their future wives. (Author)

The author provides a commentary on aspects of second careers presented in previous articles. (BY)

Describes the choices, barriers, and experiences of women employed in and seeking employment in nontraditional occupations, based on a survey of 75 women. Results indicated the women held strong views of sex role equality, and named money and benefits as the most common reason for pursuing nontraditional careers. (JAC)

College men are shown to hold more liberal attitudes toward working wives than has generally been assumed. Many men prefer a wife who pursues a full-time career. (Author)

Even television programs are thought to distort the real-life occupational distribution of women workers by favoring sex stereotypes and representing a narrow range of portrayed occupations for women. (Author)

An occupational interest scale for women pharmacists was developed by administering the Strong Vocational Interest Blank to a national sample of registered pharmacists. (Author)

Counselor responses to 25 attitudinal questions about women and work were analyzed, revealing more positive than negative attitudes but some ambivalence. (Author)

The author concludes that what counselors need to guard against is the danger of lagging behind in their own attitudes toward sex roles in their understanding of male female differences and the great overlap that exists in most characteristics, and in their knowledge of changing job, educational, and employment requirements. (Author)

Two major conflicting pressures, career development and assumption of the homemaker role, are discussed relative to future planning of college women and attitudes of men toward career-oriented women. (Author)

Studies adequacy of the theory of work adjustment for explaining homemaker and career orientation in women. Situational factors such as age, marital status, and education are important determinants. Career-oriented women had stronger needs for autonomy and good work conditions. Homemaker-oriented women had stronger needs for altruism. (JAC)

Women making the transition from home to paid employment often need help identifying their values, setting goals, assessing abilities and interests, and organizing a job search compaign. An overview of a three-day workshop planned to address these issues is presented. (Author/CC)

This paper reports on the results of research on attempts to increase the self-understanding and career choice skills of student wives. An experimental group that underwent a workshop was compared to a control group on a number of personality and career scales. The two groups were not significantly different. (NG)