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Employment Resources
Impact: Feature Issue on Employment and Women with
Disabilities
http://ici.umn.edu/products/impact/211This
publication presents compelling personal stories of women
with disabilities succeeding in a wide range of jobs, along
with strategies, research, and resources to enhance
employment options for girls and women with disabilities.
Published by the Institute on Community Integration,
University of Minnesota.
Quest Beyond the Pink Collar
http://atdpweb.soe.berkeley.edu/quest/home.html
Welcome to the
Quest Beyond the Pink Collar. This is a place where girls
can learn about themselves, explore non-traditional career
options, and learn
about female role-models of the past, present and future.
American Association of People with
Disabilities
http://www.aapd.com/index.php
Please explore this site and take a
special visit to the internship possibilities offered to people
with disabilities.
Women Work
www.womenwork.org
This website
has launched a new project to recruit women to information
technology jobs.
Wider
Opportunities for Women
www.Work4Women.org/
This web site
is where you can learn about Non Traditional Occupations. NTO's
are jobs where women comprise 25% or less of the total employed.
Women of NASA
quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/intro.html
This is the Women of NASA site. You can see profiles of over 140
women working in a variety of jobs. It has lots going on, chats,
webcast, and forums.
Women Tech
World
www.womentechworld.org/
WomenTechWorld website has twenty-nine occupational categories
with biographies and stories about different women at work.
Disability
direct
www.disability.gov
This is the New Freedom Initiative: Disability Direct
Information on Disabilities for Americans web site. It has a
number of links related to education, employment, and
technology.
Office of
Employment Support Programs
www.ssa.gov/work/Youth/youth.html
This section of the OESP web site is dedicated to youth with
disabilities.
Youth Corner
Career Planning
www.doleta.gov/youth_services
This is the Department of Labor’s website link to career
planning. Check out Youth with DisABILITIES
Job
Accommodation Network
janweb.icdi.wvu.edu
JAN is an international toll-free consulting service that
provides information about job accommodations and the
employability of people with disabilities. The JAN “Points of
Interest” has over 250 links to information.
Youthhood
www.youthhood.org/youthhood/index.asp
This Web site was built to help you plan for the future. What
will you do after high school? Will you work? Go to college?
Live in a place of your own? By using this Web site, you can
plan for your future right now! |
