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The roots of our dual occupational system can be traced to
the educational system. In 1975,
The Center for Human Resources at UH developed a program for Texas schools to
eliminate discrimination in vocational programs. Texas is the
only state in the nation to
commit its own research monies
to the problems of vocational
education for women. The program became known as Project
EVE (Equal Vocational Education. EVE staff at Sam Houston
High School, the demonstration
school, developed a formalized
recruitment program which included presentations to sophomore girls. That year six girls
entered traditionally male vocational training courses.
EVE staff maintained close
contact with these girls during
the school year, in addition to
an intensive community-wide
publicity campaign. Response
from students, teachers, parents and industry representatives was overwhelmingly positive. This year, 10 city high
schools participated in the EVE
program and 109 girls entered
technical and industrial training
programs. This is especially
timely since the craft and
industrial job market will provide the greatest opportunities
in the next ten years.
Project EVE hopes to bring
about "true equal opportunity
for women in the last bastion of
male domination, the skilled/
craft jobs."
VGS
More than 90% of all American women work for pay at least
part of their lives.
Yet women continue to be
concentrated in stereotyped,
dead-end occupations paying
much lower wages than do the
occupations which are traditionally male dominated.
The average entry earnings
for skilled workers in "male"
fields, such as carpentry, auto
mechanics and plumbing, pay
$6.46 per hour. This is more
than double the average entry
earnings -$3.18 per hour -- for
"women's" occupations.
Urging women to consider
the economics of broad employment choices is one of the aims
of VGS, Inc. This United Fund
agency at 2525 San Jacinto
"exists to promote and to
improve the welfare of those
area residents whose socioeconomic, mental and/or physical status creates barriers to
attaining that end." VGS is
composed of three programs:
Vocational Guidance Service
Central, Manpower Division
and Center for Life Sciences
Division.
Gaye Brown-Burke, program
supervisor of Vocational Guidance Service Central, also
points out other considerations
in non-traditional jobs for women, such as satisfaction in
seeing end results of work,
physical exercise and diverse
environments. She helps her
clients broaden their views of
themselves and of the world of
work. This is done through
supportive listening, assessment, testing and self-help
groups including role playing.
Vocational Guidance Service
Central counsels housewives
Roots
Reveals
How long was Rapunzel's hair? We don't
known . . . but
Swami Pandara Sannadhi, head of an
Indian monastery, had the longest recorded hair, measuring 26 feet at his
death in 1949. His hair being matted, he
undoubtedly suffered plica caudiformis.
Jane Bunford wore her hair in two
plaits which reached her ankles, indicating a length in excess of 8 feet. The tallest
woman in medical history, Jane received
a head injury at age 11. At 13, she was
6' 6" tall and at her death in 1922 she
was 7' 7" tall. She suffered severe
curvature of the spine and would have
measured 7' 11".
"The reason women want non-traditional jobs is because these jobs pay
better. Itfs a simple matter of economics. " _ Fredell Bergstrom
Director of Project EVE
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who are facing an "empty
nest," displaced executives,
handicanned persons and students who seek assistance in
college and curriculum selection. Clients' fees are determined by sliding scale. This
division of VGS also includes
Employment Related Services,
which offers welfare recipients
counseling, job referrals and
day care. This service places
about 20% of its participants in
jobs each month.
The Manpower Division,
which receives CETA funds,
provides disadvantaged, unemployed Houstonians with education, skill training and work
experience necessary for entrance into the job market.
Clients are referred from CETA
service centers. The three facets of the program are: Adult
Work Experience, which assigns trainees to jobs in nonprofit human service agencies
to gain necessary experience;
Youth Out-of-School Services,
which provides 16-19 year old
drop-outs with counseling,
training and work experience;
and Emergency Jobs Program,
which provides jobs in nonprofit agencies to Houstonians
who have been unemployed for
at least 30 days.
The Center for Life Sciences
has two parts. The Alternative
Program is a drug-free treatment program that offers residential therapy and outpatient
counseling to drug-dependent
individuals. The Junction Program is a juvenile delinquency
control program.
Charles G. McCarthy, Chief
Executive Officer of VGS, Inc.,
describes himself as a "totally
emancipated vocational free
agent." All programs, he says
with enthusiasm, "thrust toward vocational success." Feeling that sex segregation in the
labor market is a major problem, McCarthy says that women
have "on|y scratched the surface." He stresses that VGS will
not place anyone in jobs. Rather
as he sees it, the clients receive
the tools necessary to find their
own direction.
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