As part of a five-year plan for vocational education, the California State Department of Education and the Chancellor's Office of Community Colleges contracted for a study to be done to obtain information on programs and services that are being provided to displaced homemakers. Through a series of mailed questionnaires, first to self-identified…

While early studies of achievement motivation focused on young men, more recent studies have focused on women's motivation to achieve. Five groups were compared on achievement motivation and achievement-related variables: Women (ages 30-50) who were either homemakers, applicants accepted at college but not attending, or returnees enrolled in…

The results of a reivew by the United States General Accounting Office (GAO), this paper examines the Title XX Program of the Social Security Act and makes suggestions for its improvement. The Title XX Program provides funds to states to enable them to tailor social services programs to fit the needs of local communities. Such services are…

The aims of this workbook for delegates to the White House Conference on Families are (1) to focus attention on the themes of the conference, (2) to provide brief background information on the issues to be discussed in the conference workgroups, and (3) to summarize recommendations which were part of the state issue reports. The workbook is…

A study of low income homemakers attending consumer information educational meetings in St. Louis City, Missouri was undertaken to determine the knowledge acquired in specified consumer education practices and to assess the applicability of educational methods in presenting consumer information. The schedule of 121 questions used by interviewers…

The survey of agencies providing home care conducted on January 1, 1966 by the Division of Nursing showed that almost 70 percent of the population of the United States and essentially all of the population in the territories lived in areas where some type of organized home care nursing services was available. Since 1959, the number of large cities…

The educational needs of neglected women are described in this report in the form of testimony from nationwide hearings on the subject, profiles of specific types of women, and case histories. Following each profile, solutions to the problems presented are suggested and existing programs are listed. Recommendations are made to revise existing…

The Mid-Career Teacher Education Study (MTES), funded by the New York State Department of Education to find ways of alleviating the teacher shortage, has developed an elementary teacher education program called Mid-Career Training for Partnership Teaching (MTPT), which recruits college educated housewives who want to help children participate in…

Thirty-nine selected participants representing 21 states and Puerto Rico and including directors and consultants in homemaker-home health aide agencies and vocational-technical home economics educators participated in the 2-week workshop in July 1968 at Rutgers University. The objectives were to develop plans to improve and expand programs to…

The study examined the hypothesis that occupation and residence patterns present after high school graduation are generally predictable. The data come from a homogeneous, all white central Minnesota farming community with a 1961 population of 3,300. The study population is the 1961 high school graduating class, who were surveyed by questionnaire…

This report is the first of a 2-part study aimed at assessing levels of information about and perceptions of vocational, technical, and adult education (VTAE) in Florida. Analysis of data collected during a statewide survey of 630 Florida residents in late March and early April 1971 revealed that perceptions of VTAE seem to be generally positive,…

The growing population of "displaced homemakers" is being helped by vocational adjustment counseling and training programs established with federal and state aid through the efforts of the Alliance for Displaced Homemakers, a national lobbying organization. Some of the projects for widowed or divorced homemakers are described. (MF)

Describes Chapter II, Hagerstown Junior College's career/academic counseling and support program for displaced homemakers, focusing on the program's clientele, outreach efforts, services, staffing, and links with community agencies and other college services. (DMM)

Discusses the development of a measure for enabling counselors and educators to identify and help women experiencing inhibiting or depressing levels of conflict. Describes a study using discriminant analysis to compare the relative importance of activity, affect, and event variables for women majoring in traditional careers and those majoring in…

A staff development program on gender equity was conducted for personnel in Wisconsin's technical colleges using the train-the-trainer method. The training took two approaches: a class for college personnel and career challenge training for project directors of single parent and displaced homemaker grants. The inservice class resulted in increased…