Surveys the progress made by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in enforcing equal opportunities for the employment of women in university research projects sponsored by federal funds. Concludes that contract compliance is proving a clumsy mechanism for women's groups anxious to make rapid changes at their universities." (AL)

Describes New York Telephone's Ultimate Goals Opportunities program, which trains women for jobs in the technical management area of the company. (IRT)

The "Occupational Outlook for 1975" program at Purdue has alumnae and employer representatives coming on campus to help women discover what is going on in the business world. (Author)

The Bell system is the largest nongovernmental employer of people in the country, and over 50 percent of the people employed by its systems are women. This paper deals with the new personnel policies concerning women within the Bell system; in particular, it describes the AT & T Management Assessment Program (MAP), the vehicle used to identify…

This document is one in a series of monographs aimed at providing a narrative summary of ideas and thoughts gathered from particular community segments represented in a series of mini-conferences held to discuss the concept of collaboration in career education. In this monograph, the career education activities of the National Federation of…

Author discussed industry's need to fulfill its supply of competent managers. She suggested what companies can do to stimulate the utilization of women's talents as managers. A program was described starting with an appraisal of a company and how women can fit into the program. (RK)

The science career workshop was targeted at freshman and sophomore women enrolled in public and private two- and four-year colleges and universities in the New York City area. The central theme of the workshop was that career choice represents a significant personal decision and needs to be based on sound information about the self, the external…

This paper describes a training program for women designed to increase the number of women candidates for administrative openings (in Education), and to insure that graduates become sensitive to sex stereotyping so they will function as positive agents to eliminate its presence in schools. A total of 39 women during summers of 1975 and 1976…

Women in administration must begin to seek out and provide opportunities for other women through inservice programming and intern experiences. They must accept the responsibility to recommend and recruit capable women whenever input is solicited and to speak up with recommendations when it is not. (Author)

The cultural position of women vis-a-vis work is changing. Family breakdown and the financial burdens which come with single-parenting are forcing women to enter the job market for the first time or in a new way. Even in two-parent families, economic constraints are demanding that wives as well as husbands work full-time. Too many women will…

This presentation describes a course, "Lifework Planning," designed to help women evaluate their current job status and plan career changes commensurate with long-range life goals. The framework for the program is self-directed learning, through which women develop coping strategies for change. Participants and leaders make mutual decisions…

In eight years, the Professional Skills Roster has filled 46 percent of the jobs it has listed. The applicants are a highly educated group of men and women with varied skills. The Roster has also helped to smooth the transition from the home to the labor force for many women applicants. (KRP)

Describes Project ICES, a model for increasing the numbers of women holding administrative positions in Kansas's public school systems, the organizational characteristics that promoted conflict and participant stress, and the unplanned mechanism (organized anarchy) that reduced conflict. (Author/IRT)

The status and barriers faced by women business owners is examined, and ways in which higher education institutions can assist women to overcome these obstacles are suggested. The Women Entrepreneurs (WE) Project is described, and a survey of women-owned businesses in California is discussed. (Author/MLW)