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Download full textHerman, Alexis M. – 1979
There is a great need to examine factors limiting educational opportunities of women, especially minority and low income women. Thus, it is important to identify funding sources for research and development programs which enhance women's educational equity. Possible funding sources include the Department of Labor and other federal programs. In the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Opportunities, Equal Education, Federal Aid
Advocates for Women, San Francisco, CA. – 1977
In order to identify the barriers currently excluding women from equal access to non-traditional employment, a study examined ten agencies and programs in California which provide employment services to women. They may be categorized as either women's agencies, Comprehensive Employment Training Act (CETA) subcontractors (employment services),…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs, Employment Services
Berryman, Sue E.; And Others – 1981
A study assessed whether the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) equitably allocates its training, employment, occupational, and wage benefits by sex. To analyze the sex equity of CETA's resource distribution, researchers used data from the Continuous Longitudinal Manpower Survey (CLMS) for fiscal 1976, 1977, and 1978 CETA enrollees.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Employment Level, Employment Patterns, Employment Programs
Waite, Linda J.; Berryman, Sue E. – 1982
The occupational distributions in the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs and the wage implications of these for men and women of different racial and ethnic origins were examined. Data came from two projects on CETA, both using Continuous Longitudinal Manpower Survey data. One assessed the nature and equity of men's and…
Descriptors: Blacks, Employment Patterns, Employment Programs, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Bonnet, Deborah G.; And Others – 1978
A study was conducted of Indiana's Summer Programs for the Education and Development of Youth (SPEDY) to describe the program themselves and to study the programs' effect on participants' short-term career education attitudes, knowledge, and skills. SPEDY is a training for public-sector work program operated each summer for about ten weeks for…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Career Planning, Disadvantaged Youth
National Advisory Council on Vocational Education, Washington, DC. – 1981
Several federal laws that address the issue of sex equity in education and employment do so in part by placing personnel in official and advisory positions at the state and local level to effect equity. In vocational education, Public Law 94-482 mandates vocational education sex equity personnel (in most states entitled "sex equity…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Affirmative Action, Civil Rights, Educational Discrimination
Peterson, Paul E.; Rabe, Barry G. – 1981
Data from four case studies of urban vocational education and a National Opinion Research Center survey of high school sophomores and seniors were used to research the role of vocational programs in managing the transition from school to work. The case study cities were Atlanta, Chicago, Rochester, and San Francisco. It was found that vocational…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Case Studies, Compliance (Legal), Education Work Relationship
National Inst. of Education (ED), Washington, DC. – 1981
This document reports on findings of the studies on vocational education that the Education Amendments of 1976 directed the National Institute of Education to conduct. The introduction overviews these studies of vocational education programs conducted under the Vocational Education Act of 1963 (VEA) and other related programs conducted under the…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Consumer Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
National Commission for Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1981
The National Commission for Employment Policy has examined ways that the United States federal government could improve the economic situation of disadvantaged women. In particular, the Commission examined, during 1980, the role of education and employment and training programs in helping women to prepare for better paying occupations, and then…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adults, Apprenticeships, Blacks
Connecticut State Dept. of Education, Hartford. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1981
This brochure provides summaries of 23 exemplary, research, and curriculum projects known as the Vocational Improvement Program that share three concerns: meeting needs of underserved students, sex fairness, and excellence in vocational education. The 14 exemplary projects focus on vocational exploration and skill building in marine and related…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Bilingual Education, Business Education, Career Awareness
