Getting a Living, Getting a Life After the Senior Prom

How will women survive the job market of the 90s & beyond? This new book by a Boston University economist uses a fast-paced narrative approach to reach young women while they are still free to prepare themselves for better-paid & more satisfying occupations in blue-collar & professional fields. An unusual combination of fictional characters & factual reports is designed to attract young women to non-traditional employment. In the story, a group of young women celebrate their graduation from high school with a picnic which ends unhappily as the high school swim star disappears after a confrontation with her step-father. In the aftermath, the grieving teenagers are shocked into pushing for further education despite financial problems & lack of self-confidence. At a home-town reunion five years later, the friends are well on their way to productive careers in carpentry, botany, business management, politics & medicine. The Appendix then includes information sources of financial aid; protection against discrimination in education & employment. Bibliography & Index are also included. To order: Pemberton Publishers, P.O. Box 441558, Somerville, MA 02144-0013. Tel. (617) 868-6065. FAX (617) 876-8186.Fitzpatrick, Blanche is the author of 'Getting a Living, Getting a Life After the Senior Prom' with ISBN 9780962739729 and ISBN 0962739723.