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Equity Tips for Counseling and Advocacy
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Equity Tips for Counseling and Advocacy
Expanding Students' Options
Encourage all students to make academic and career decisions on the basis of their individual abilities, interests, and values rather than their gender.
Encourage students to pursue a career of interest to them even though the people in the field are primarily of the other gender.
Encourage all students to take three to four years of high school math and science in order to be better prepared for the technological and skilled trade careers.
Use nontraditional role models-- both women and men for career days, mentoring, shadowing, or group guidance classes.
Discuss the impact of career choice on wages.
Discuss the ways stereotypes affect perceptions of careers.
Meet regularly with students who are nontraditional in a career and technical education program to support them and to discuss problems that may arise.
Provide realistic information about the changing roles of both female and male workers in the paid workforce.
Recognize barriers that young men and women face in response to socialization processes and pressures when they work in nontraditional jobs.
Provide students who are about to enter the workforce with information about their employment rights and discrimination laws.
Use of Materials
Review all counseling and testing materials for sources of gender bias and stereotyping- modify or purge as appropriate.
Find and make available in your office area materials on nontraditional career fields.
Coordinate social media postings and in-school displays to depict individuals of both genders working at a variety of jobs, including nontraditional occupations.
Equity Advocacy
Encourage school administration to provide new and earlier opportunities for students to explore nontraditional options at elementary and junior high levels using Pennsylvania's Academic Standards for Career Education and Work.
Meet with faculty in nontraditional programs to discuss the importance of their role in recruitment and retention.
Review economic, social and/or demographic trends that may affect students' career choices and options.
Develop a comprehensive sexual harassment training program for school staff, students, and employers.
Attempt to educate parents on an on-going basis about the need for expanded career options and preparation for home and work realities for both men and women.
Act as an equity advocate in the community, supporting academic and career decisions based on interests, and values rather than gender.