ERIC Number: ED311254
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1989-Jan
Pages: 102
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Vocational Gender Equity Project Abstracts 1988-1989.
Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond.
This document contains abstracts of 43 projects conducted through Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act sex equity set-aside grants administered by the Vocational Gender Equity Office, Virginia Department of Education. The projects described are grouped in the following categories: (1) centers to serve single parents and homemakers; (2) programs to serve teenage parents; (3) programs for women to explore nontraditional trade and industrial careers; (4) programs for women to explore high technology careers; (5) mini-grants to eliminate sex bias and to enhance sex equity for men and women; (6) a sex equity resource center; and (7) a statewide program to assist teachers and counselors in promoting vocational sex equity. Each two-page abstract provides information on project title, director, location, telephone number, time frame, funding level, objectives, procedures for implementation, and contributions to vocational education. (KC)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Development, Career Education, Community Programs, Counselor Training, Demonstration Programs, Displaced Homemakers, Early Parenthood, Grants, Nontraditional Occupations, One Parent Family, Postsecondary Education, Program Descriptions, Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation, Secondary Education, Sex Bias, Sex Discrimination, Sex Fairness, State Programs, Teacher Education, Technical Occupations, Technological Advancement
Publication Type: Reference Materials - Directories/Catalogs; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond.
Identifiers - Location: Virginia
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Carl D Perkins Vocational Education Act 1984
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