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Padula, Marjorie A. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 1994
Provides a comprehensive literature review of research--from 1980 to 1990--regarding reentry women. Discusses reentry trends; general characteristics; reasons for reentry; personality; role, values, and family; satisfaction in the student role; career choice; reentry women after graduation; research limitations; and research recommendations.…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Counseling, Displaced Homemakers, Employed Women
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Watanabe, Agnes; Herr, Edwin L. – Journal of Career Development, 1993
Changes in occupational structure, demographics, and social values are affecting the career development of young workers, reentry women, and older adults in Japan. Counseling must adjust to meet new needs, such as increased high school dropout and joblessness. (SK)
Descriptors: Career Development, Dropouts, Employment Patterns, Females
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Zikic, Jelena; Klehe, Ute-Christine – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2006
Job loss is one of the most difficult work related situations that an individual may encounter. Yet, sometimes job loss may also turn into a blessing in disguise. Combining the careers literature with the literature on unemployment, the current paper addresses potential positive outcomes of job loss by focusing on specific career adaptability…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Career Exploration, Career Planning, Self Efficacy
Morrison, Malcolm H. – 1984
This paper describes the examination of a national rehabilitation system in Israel which was undertaken to identify and understand that country's vocational rehabilitation strategies and methods and to evaluate their potential for use with older disabled persons in the United States. A study visit to Israel is described which focused on policies…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Employment Potential
Association of American Colleges, Washington, DC. Project on the Status and Education of Women. – 1979
A list of professional groups that offer one or more services regarding employment opportunities for women is presented. The services include a roster of women for employers seeking female applicants, listing of job openings in their newsletters, financial aid, and career information. The groups' address, phone number, executive director,…
Descriptors: Careers, Employed Women, Employment Opportunities, Employment Services
Illinois State Office of Education, Springfield. Div. of Adult Vocational and Technical Education. – 1979
The 1979 Displaced Homemakers Conference focused on developing awareness of services available from various Illinois agencies to displaced homemakers, generating the spirit and means for cooperative relationships among agencies serving them, and offering prototypes of how women's centers are attempting to coordinate the various services of state…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Coordination, Displaced Homemakers
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Adler, Nancy J. – Group and Organization Studies, 1981
Studied the re-entry process of corporate and governmental employees (N=200) returning to Canada after working overseas. Research found re-entry into the original culture was a more difficult transition than moving to the foreign culture. Home-country managers tended to exhibit xenophobia in assessing the potential and actual effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Administrators, Coping, Employer Attitudes
McGivney, Veronica – Adults Learning (England), 1992
Although women constitute 44 percent of Great Britain's work force, they are concentrated in a limited number of occupations and have less access to training opportunities. Their training needs are for upgrading skills, preparing for reentry, learning new technologies, and training for occupational change. Their opportunities are notoriously…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Corporate Education, Employed Women, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Oregon State Board of Education, Salem. – 1992
The reserve pool is an important part of the educator supply pool in Oregon and in the nation. The Oregon reserve pool consists of those teachers, counselors, and administrators who hold active Oregon licenses but are not currently employed in an Oregon public school. To provide information on educator supply and demand needed to prepare for…
Descriptors: Administrators, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Opportunities, Labor Force
Olsen, Dwayne G.; Heyse, Kathy L. – 1990
This study sought to determine if the Fuller Teacher Concerns Theory explains the development of first-year teachers with and without mentors and of reentry teachers with and without mentors. The Fuller Theory identified three stages of concern as teachers develop professionally: self-survival, teaching tasks, and impact on students. Data were…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1988
Though the traditional 9:00-to-5:00 work week remains the predominant scheduling choice of most employers, companies in all industries increasingly are using alternative scheduling methods that allow employees to balance their work and family responsibilities. Alternative work schedules for permanent employees frequently are advocated as a…
Descriptors: Adults, Employed Parents, Employment Practices, Flexible Working Hours
Women's Action Alliance, Inc., New York, NY. – 1981
This directory is designed to help women find information on organizations in cities and towns across the United States which exist to provide help for women with problems ranging from unemployment and lack of recognized job skills to physical abuse and unwanted pregnancy. It is arranged alphabetically by state. Within each state, the entries are…
Descriptors: Battered Women, Career Counseling, Contraception, Displaced Homemakers
Far West Lab. for Educational Research and Development, San Francisco, CA. – 1983
This manual examines problems the displaced homemaker encounters on the job and offers strategies which vocational educators, counselors, and other service providers can suggest to nontraditional students for overcoming these problems. A brief overview of the displaced homemaker is provided and the term "nontraditional occupation" is defined. An…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Coping, Displaced Homemakers, Employed Women
Ekstrom, Ruth B. – 1981
This Women's Workbook is part of the HAVE (Homemaking and Volunteer Experience) Skills materials designed to help women identify the job-relevant skills they have learned as homemakers and volunteers and to match those skills with paid jobs. In addition to helping women who are entering paid work after spending time as homemakers or volunteers,…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Change, Employed Women, Employment Qualifications
Ekstrom, Ruth B. – 1981
Adult women returning to paid employment often encounter the belief that homemaking and community volunteer work have no transferability to work experience. Project Access, designed to survey the skills acquired through women's life experience and determine their usefulness in selected direct-entry occupations, showed that the most commonly found…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Displaced Homemakers, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs
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