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Abstract
The paper describes a career planning project for final year female students begun in 1984. The project aimed at intervening in the process by which female social work graduates do not progress in their professional careers to the extent that male graduates do.
The project revealed the existence of an alarming degree of career passivity amongst eighty percent of the final year female student body. It revealed, also, the existence of a strong career commitment amongst the remaining twenty percent. However, their career commitment was unsupported by the knowledge required to carry it out. Finally, the project made clear the necessity for further action and research and the direction in which these should proceed. Already, some of these have begun.