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Department for Education and Children's Services. Subject and Career Choice: Issues for
    Girls in Secondary Schools. Country Areas National Component of the National Equity Program for Schools, Adelaide, 1995.

Department of Employment, Education and Training. Let's Talk Business: Commerce and
    Girls' Post-School Options. Canberra, 1992.

This book offers interesting historical narratives and a comprehensive picture of the range of ways in which Commerce is conceptualised around Australia. It highlights difficulties and dilemmas faced and offers convincing suggestions about change.

Department of Employment, Education and Training. Looking Ahead: How Primary Schools
    Can Broaden Girls' Post-school Options. Canberra, 1992.

This book covers a range of approaches to Gender Equity which have been developed in Primary Schools and focuses particularly on those designed to broaden girls' post-school lives.

Department of Employment, Education and Training. Private Lives and Public Domains:
    Home Economics and Girls' Post-school Options. Canberra, 1992.

This publication reviews the potential of the home economics curriculum for broadening girls' post-school options. It investigates gender issues associated with a curriculum area which has not previously been a major focus in gender research.

Department of Industrial Relations, Vocational Education and Training. Gender Work:
    An Education Kit on the Concept of Gender and Work. Teachers' guide; employers' guide; parents' guide and 26 photocopiable student worksheets. Tasmania, 1995.

This kit is a classroom resource designed to deconstruct gender stereotyping in relation to work.

Healey, K. Issues for the 1990s, vol. 9: Changing Roles in the Family. Spinney Press, 1993.
    This volume focuses on the balance between work and family responsibilities, unpaid work and the pressures on single parent families. The information comes from a variety of sources and includes various current reports, statistics, articles and opinions.

Kenway, J. & Willis, S. Enhancing Girls' Post School Options: Recommendations
    for Policy, Curriculum, Professional Development and Research. Department of Employment, Education and Training, Canberra, 1993.

Recommendations are made for policy making by systems and schools; curriculum development by teachers, schools and systems; and for the professional development of teachers and administrators.

Kenway, J. & Willis, S. Telling Tales: Girls and Schools Changing Their Ways.
    Department of Employment, Education and Training, Canberra, 1993.

Telling Tales looks at what actually happens in schools when teachers seek to enhance girls' post-school options. It shows many imaginative ways in which policy is translated into practice.


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