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Jobs for the Girls? How Careers Education Can Help
Author(s) -
d'Alpuget Blanche
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1979.tb00644.x
Subject(s) - project commissioning , publishing , unemployment , subject (documents) , public relations , sociology , political science , economic growth , economics , law , library science , computer science
High unemployment continuing into the 1980s challenges society and the schools. Careers education, a fairly new subject in Australia, is likely to become increasingly important, but in future methods and directions are still matters for debate. In the area of female employment—young females are least likely to find jobs—schools have made some significant contributions to developing ideas for career education and to assisting their students to cope with life after school. For girls and boys attitudinal change to sex roles is a central factor in future job finding and sharing.