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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED211679 AUTHOR:
TITLE: Transition from School to Work: Issues Affecting
Young Women. Discussion Paper by the National Advisory
Committee on Women and Education.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1981
NOTE: 23 p.
ABSTRACT: With a rising level of female school leaver
unemployment, and recent cutbacks in traditional areas of
women's employment, it has become a matter of urgency for
positive, comprehensive action to be taken within the
education system of New Zealand to encourage young women
into a wider range of vocational opportunities. A
coordinated policy from intermediate school level through
tertiary is needed; and it must take account of the sex
segregation in prevocational and vocational preparation and
the concept of sex role stereotyping and its effect on the
socialization of girls and boys. Issues requiring
consideration include (1) the common core curriculum in
forms 1-4 and the availability of all subjects to both girls
and boys; (2) subject choices of girls and boys at senior
secondary level when prevocational choices are made; (3) the
quality and impact of career education programs; (4) the
preparation and training of the counseling and teaching
staff; and (5) affirmative action programs in vocational
training at the tertiary level. In particular, the situation
of Maori and Pacific Island female school leavers requires
urgent attention and action. The New Zealand National
Advisory Committee on Women and Education recommends that
polices be developed to encourage equal participation by
women in the economic, social, and decision-making
structures of the country, a role they have not often played
in the past. (Appendixes include a statement by the minister
of education and statistics on subject choices, school
leavers, and school certificates). (Author/KC)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Career-Choice; Career-Education; Demand
Occupations; Educational-Policy; Elementary-Secondary
Education; Employment-Opportunities; Foreign-Countries;
Males-; Occupational-Information; Policy-Formation;
Postsecondary-Education; Sex-Discrimination; Sex-Fairness;
Sex-Stereotypes; Unemployment-; Womens-Education
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Dropouts-; *Educational-Needs; *Education
Work-Relationship; *Females-; *Vocational-Education; *Youth
Employment
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