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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED149189 AUTHOR: Schenck, John Phillip
TITLE: Sex Fairness in Vocational Education. Information
Series No. 120.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1977
NOTE: 54 p.
AVAILABILITY: and series discounts available)
ABSTRACT: A review and analysis of programs and strategies
which help program planners and curriculum developers
eliminate sex bias in vocational education are presented in
this state-of-the-art paper. It is noted that vocational
educators are only now beginning to report in any volume on
the subject of sex fairness and that there is little
doctoral research in this area. The following topics and
issues are discussed: sex fairness in vocational education
as a warranted assumption, impact on careers of sex-role
stereotyping and sex bias in vocational education, forces
promoting sex fairness in vocational education (including
socialization, instructional materials, vocational interest
inventories, world of employment), and forces promoting the
eradication of sex unfairness in vocational education
(including legislation). Recommendations are made to
maximize reduction of sex unfairness in vocational
education. These include the following: enforce appropriate
laws, provide overt support, take affirmative action,
provide new models for vocational aspirations, require
inservice education for vocational educators, re-examine
the principles of vocational education, and disseminate
information. (TA)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Career-Choice; Educational-Change;
Enrollment-Influences; Equal-Opportunities-Jobs; Federal
Legislation; Literature-Reviews; Occupational-Information;
Program-Development; Sex-Role; Social-Attitudes; State-of
the-Art-Reviews
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Career-Education; *Change-Strategies;
*Sex Discrimination; *Sex-Stereotypes;
*Vocational-Education
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