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Forrest, Cameron, Ed.; Scobie, Charlotte, Ed. – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2020
The Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) are a series of nationally representative surveys of young people, which follow their transitions from compulsory schooling to postschool education and into employment. The survey program is administered by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) on behalf of the Australian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Surveys, Youth
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
When you think of someone who is an engineer, do you imagine a man or a woman wearing a hardhat? How about when you imagine a teacher standing in front of a class of schoolchildren? If you answer "a man" to the first question, and "a woman" to the second, there's probably a reason. And the reason is simply that more men than…
Descriptors: Careers, Females, Labor Market, Engineering
Corbett, Christianne; Hill, Catherine – American Association of University Women, 2015
During the 2014 White House Science Fair, President Barack Obama used a sports metaphor to explain why we must address the shortage of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), particularly in the engineering and computing fields: "Half our team, we're not even putting on the field. We've got to change those…
Descriptors: Females, STEM Education, Success, Disproportionate Representation
Corbett, Christianne; Hill, Catherine – American Association of University Women, 2015
During the 2014 White House Science Fair, President Barack Obama used a sports metaphor to explain why we must address the shortage of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), particularly in the engineering and computing fields: "Half our team, we're not even putting on the field. We've got to change those…
Descriptors: Females, STEM Education, Success, Disproportionate Representation
Sikora, Joanna; Pokropek, Artur – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2011
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of adolescent career plans reported in PISA 2006. Its main focus is on the differences in the status and area of employment expected by girls and boys in high school. In almost all countries, girls lead boys in their interest in non-manual, high status professional occupations. This can be seen as a…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Females, Foreign Countries
Stuart, Nina G.; Dunkelberger, J. E. – 1974
Comprised of 20 tables of data, this paper presents the statistical data on the historical changes in occupational status projections of Northeast Alabama youth in 1966 and 1972. The data pertain to: (1) frequency distributions of occupational orientations by race and sex; and (2) changes in occupational aspirations, expectations, anticipatory…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Blacks, Career Choice, Expectation
Montclair State Coll., Upper Montclair, NJ. Life Skills Center. – 1990
The New Jersey Occupational Information Coordinating Committee's statistics for average annual predicted job openings for program year 1989 are given in this report, along with the New Jersey Division of Vocational Education completers' statistics for the 1988-89 school year. The numbers of male and female completers of secondary programs for each…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections, Females
Montclair State Coll., Upper Montclair, NJ. Life Skills Center. – 1988
The New Jersey Occupational Information Coordinating Committee's statistics for average annual predicted job openings for 1984-87 are presented, along with the New Jersey Division of Vocational Education's enrollment statistics for the same period. The number of males and females enrolled in secondary programs for each of the 29 job categories…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections, Enrollment

Carter, Reginald; And Others – Journal of Medical Education, 1984
A survey of 46 physician's assistant programs shows most are two years long and offer bachelors degrees. Typical students are 28 years old, have three to four years of college, and have one to two years of health care experience. Over half are women, and veterans comprise a declining percentage. (MSE)
Descriptors: Age, Educational Background, Enrollment Trends, Females
Astin, Alexander W.; And Others – 1982
Fall 1982 data on first-time, full-time freshmen are presented as part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program. The normative data are presented separately for women and men, and for 38 groupings of institutions. The major stratifying factors are institutional race (predominantly black versus predominantly white), type (two-year college,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Educational Background, Family Characteristics, Females
Andrade, Sally J.; Torres, Marcia G. – 1982
Research related to the aspirations of the Hispanic woman for educational and labor force achievement in relation to her role as wife and mother is presented. The document contains two reports. The first, "Young Hispanics in the United States--Their Aspirations for the Future: Findings from Two National Surveys," is based on analysis of the…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, Blacks, Early Parenthood
Weber, Margaret B.; And Others – 1980
The purpose of this study was to examine characteristics and perceptions of women who hold administrative positions and of women teachers who may aspire to administrative positions in public or private elementary and secondary education. Specifically, the study focused on the following questions: What traditional personal and social definitions of…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Family Influence, Females
Ohlendorf, George W.; Smith, Kevin B. – 1974
The paper examined changes in occupational projections among rural Louisiana high school youths between 1968 and 1972. The research design obtained a representative sample of these youths through a proportionate, stratified, random cluster sampling technique. The 1968 procedures were: (1) the State was stratified into 4 geographical areas which…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Area Studies, Blacks, Comparative Analysis

Vetter, Louise – Youth and Society, 1985
Examines effects of Title IX and Title II on female enrollment in vocational education. Analyzes enrollment data for occupationally specific programs and discusses implications under five headings: the importance of being prepared to work, the feminization of poverty, types of work for women, the importance of labels, and the importance of career…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Enrollment Trends, Females, Nontraditional Occupations
Chahin, Jaime – 1983
A survey was conducted in Brownsville, Texas, to identify the educational and occupational aspirations and expectations of Hispanic females and to determine whether these expectations and aspirations differed from those of the dominant culture. Survey instruments were distributed to all senior females (N=853) in local high schools, requesting…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Education, Expectation, Females