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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED124236 AUTHOR: Maymi, Carmen R.
TITLE: Career Education: Projecting Into the 21st Century.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1976
NOTE: 14 p.; Paper presented at the Annual Convention of
the
American Association of Community and Junior Colleges
(Washington, D. C., March 17-19, 1976)
ABSTRACT: Community and junior colleges can play an
important role in helping women exercise their options in
life without discrimination, as equal partners with men in
fulfilling national economic and social needs. The
responsibility of junior and community colleges goes beyond
providing career education for women. They must also create
an awareness among young women of their future role in
society, and provide encouragement and insight for those
oolder women who are seeking to enter or reenter the work
force. Unfortunately, even in community colleges which are
primarily committed to career preparation, women continue
to
be poorly motivated and limited in their career
asPirations.
The core of the problem is sex stereotyping--in textbooks,
in counseling, and in the attitudes of society toward the
social, political, and economic roles of women. The rights
of women to equal educational opportunity have been well
established by law. Community colleges must see that these
laws are enforced by examining their curricula, their
staffing patterns, and the kinds of guidance they offer to
students. The community college must seek innovative
approaches to the problem of preparing a knowledgeable,
trained women's work force to meet the challenge of a
growing economy and an ever increasing demand for skilled
workers. (Author/NHM)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action; Community-Colleges;
Employed-Women; Futures-of-Society;
Occupational-Aspiration;
Sex-Stereotypes; Vocational-Education
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Career-Education; *College-Role; *Sex
Discrimination; *Two-Year-Colleges; *Womens-Education
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