RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EDUCATION

1. Continue to encourage girls and women to attain the highest possible level of education.
   
   
2. Continue to encourage girls and women to consider all subjects as suitable for study.
   
   
3. Increase the availability of part-time education, especially in disciplines where women remain under-represented.
   
   
4. Ensure that essential supports for women are provided (e.g., grants, loans, subsidies for travel, childcare).
   
   
5. Identify further ways of providing support for women who are returning to the workforce (especially single parents) and who need to upgrade their education through such programs as:

• Adult Basic Education
• Job Readiness Programs
• distance education
• life/work experience credits
• travel and child-care costs
• UIC or equivalent during and upon completing courses of study.

6. Direct more attention and financial resources to the education of Native and racial minority women. The focus must be on motivating them to remain in school and on making it possible for them to have access to appropriate educational up-grading.
   
   
7. Facilitate women's and girls' access to a broader range of occupations.
   
   
8. Integrate computers into curricula other than Maths in order to help girls and teen-age women recognize that computer learning can be considered a "language" skill, an area in which they believe they are proficient.
   
   This measure will not only help allay apprehension about learning Maths but will also expand the career choices of female students.
   
   
9. Encourage girls and women to view work with computers as being unrelated to gender.
   
   
10. Provide role models in non-traditional areas by increasing the representation of women in educational administration and in the faculties, such as Science and Maths, where they are currently under-represented.