Career support services are required to help people of all ages and stages of life make educational, training, and employment decisions. While career support services have been found fundamental for empowering individuals universally, these services assume more salience and significance in the context of girls and women in order to compensate for systemic historical disadvantages experienced by them over generations. This intergenerational deprivation has resulted in low participation in the workforce, restricted choices, adverse occupational experiences, and suboptimal career outcomes. Over the years, scholars have delved into career development theories in order to come up with key pointers for career practitioners who are working or intend to work with girls and women. This chapter attempts to use the cultural preparedness perspective of career development, one of the recently developed conceptual frameworks, in order to derive lessons for guidance professionals. It articulates the concordance between career support services and empowerment, summarises career development theory for girls and women, presents key propositions of the theoretical framework of cultural preparedness perspective, and finally lists key pointers of career practitioners, teachers, and other caregivers. While illustrations used and insights presented in this chapter primarily emanate from Indian context, key lessons are applicable in other contexts as well.

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Career Guidance for Empowering Girls and Women in India: Cultural Preparedness Perspective

  • Sachin Kumar

摘要

Career support services are required to help people of all ages and stages of life make educational, training, and employment decisions. While career support services have been found fundamental for empowering individuals universally, these services assume more salience and significance in the context of girls and women in order to compensate for systemic historical disadvantages experienced by them over generations. This intergenerational deprivation has resulted in low participation in the workforce, restricted choices, adverse occupational experiences, and suboptimal career outcomes. Over the years, scholars have delved into career development theories in order to come up with key pointers for career practitioners who are working or intend to work with girls and women. This chapter attempts to use the cultural preparedness perspective of career development, one of the recently developed conceptual frameworks, in order to derive lessons for guidance professionals. It articulates the concordance between career support services and empowerment, summarises career development theory for girls and women, presents key propositions of the theoretical framework of cultural preparedness perspective, and finally lists key pointers of career practitioners, teachers, and other caregivers. While illustrations used and insights presented in this chapter primarily emanate from Indian context, key lessons are applicable in other contexts as well.