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Career and technical education programs help prevent students from dropping out of school and are an important way for women and girls to gain the skills they need to get good jobs with good pay. For more than 35 years, however, young women have been largely shut out of CTE programs that are nontraditional for their gender – programs that lead to jobs that are significantly better paid than those available in traditionally female fields. Schools must do more to address the barriers that young women continue to confront and to enable young women to enroll in and complete traditionally male career and technical education programs.
Know Your Rights:
This pamphlet will explain your rights under some major federal laws and how they apply to programs that are designed to prepare you for a career — such as career counseling, vocational education classes, on-the-job training, school-sponsored internships, or job skills classes. The information included here applies to all public schools, most employers, most private universities and colleges, vocational and technical schools, and job training programs. The pamphlet will also give you some suggestions about how to use the law to protect your right to career education.
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