vocational guidance for women

Introduces girls to the great range of opportunities that are open to them. Uses real life examples of young girls who have grown up to assume fulfilling careers as adults in both traditional and nontraditional women's occupations. The careers are listed alphabetically from A to Z.

A guide for high school girls in choosing a career and the best way to pursue it, with statistical information on more than 100 jobs.

Explains how women can maximize their unique strengths and talents in the traditionally male-dominated business world.

A woman meteorologist describes the field of meteorology, tells how she became a meteorologist, and presents some relevant science experiments.

Profiles eleven women in various performing arts fields, describing their duties, education, and career paths.

Profiles twenty-two women and the jobs they do, from choreographer to FBI agent, describing their education, duties, personality traits, and other factors in their career success, and gives specific ways to determine one's own future work.

Teaches girls, through the use of women role models, to investigate options outside the traditional roles of wife and mother by learning to develop their economic power.

Profiles women who work as ecologists, naturalists, environmental engineers, waste management, and other environmental science fields and explains their duties and how they prepared for and got their positions.

Presents profiles of over one hundred women working in interesting and fulfilling careers, providing inspiration for young women, and including information on job descriptions, day-to-day responsibilities, education and experience, and personal advice.