Jobs for the Girls? How Careers Education Can Help

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.