Female students are as disproportionately overrepresented in cosmetology, child-care, and health-services courses as are male students in automotive, construction-and-repair, and engineering courses, according to a report out today that describes efforts to reverse those enrollment disparities in career and technical education and that names three schools and colleges that are doing a good job of it.
The report was issued by the Association for Career and Technical Education, the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity, the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium, and the National Women’s Law Center.
The three institutions singled out for praise in the report are the Seattle Public Schools, in Washington; Saint Paul College, in Minnesota; and Northeast Community College, in Norfolk, Neb. —Andrew Mytelka
