Overview of three speakers discussing women in vocational education and the recently issued regulations for the 1976 education amendments. Notes that implementing the amendments as well as eliminating sex stereotyping and bias calls for change and action, particularly at the local level. (Editor/SH)

This report provides a review of the literature and secondary data on sex discrimination and stereotyping in vocational education. Chapter 1 provides an executive summary of the findings of the review of secondary data. Chapter 2 presents findings, organized according to eighteen major topics used to guide the search for data. Some of the topics…

This volume describes the methods and results of the congressionally mandated study of the nature and extent of sex discrimination and stereotyping in vocational education, and efforts which are being made to eliminate inequities. Following an introduction to the report, part 2 presents the findings and their interpretations organized into six…

This publication, compiled as a learning component for persons enrolled in a vocational education teacher education program, provides information on sex equity in vocational education and employment. The content is in nine sections. The first defines sex discrimination, bias, and stereotypes. The next section covers female participation in the…

Strategies and techniques for increasing sex fairness in vocational education are provided in this guide designed for sex equity personnel, instructors, administrators, counselors, and curriculum planners. Eight chapters of information are provided and are generally organized into the following format: introductory questions, narrative,…

This document was designed to provide strategies and techniques for increasing sex fairness in vocational education to varied users (sex equity personnel, instructors, administrators, counselors, and curriculum planning personnel). The guide should aid vocational educators in overcoming sex bias and sex stereotyping by (1) creating awareness of…

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…

This guide presents a model and plan to expedite implementation of sex equity in vocational education through the elimination of sex stereotyping and sex bias. Aimed at vocational education administrators, the guide is organized into the four steps of the plan. Step 1 provides a rationale for the decision to implement a model sex equity program,…

This report abstracts and summarizes eighty-two Indiana vocational education research and development projects funded in 1978 and 1979 with moneys allocated by Subpart 3 of the Education Amendments of 1976, Title 2, Vocational Education. The projects are grouped into seven subject categories: (1) needs assessment, (2) performance based vocational…