Sex Bias Cited in Vocational Ed
A study released today by the National Women's Law Center (NWLC) shows nationwide bias in the proportion of girls in higher-paying, traditionally male-dominated high school vocational classes. In Maryland girls make up over ninety percent of students training for careers in cosmetology, child care and health-care with wages as low as a dollar or two above minimum wage, while boys make up just under ninety percent of those training for technology, construction and automotive careers which can pay over $30 an hour. Thirty years after the passage of Title IX of the Education Amendments banned discrimination in schools, the finding that every state surveyed evinced the trend seen in Maryland, has led the NWLC to announce its intention to petition for formal investigations into possible Title IX violations in this matter.
See "Sex Bias Cited in Vocational Ed", a Washington Post Staff Writer, The Washington Post, June 5, 2002