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Homemakers forced out helped out
The group subject to the highest rate of unemployment — dis
placed homemakers — is receiving help from a program called New
Dimensions, says Pamela Horne, coordinator of the program at Texas
A&M University.
The program was organized for women who must seek a job outside
the home due to an illness, death or divorce of their spouses. Horne
says its purpose is to help the displaced homemaker recognize skills
she developed as a homemaker and use those skills in a job.
An estimated 3 million displaced homemakers are in the United
States. Despite different social and ethnic background they have one
thing in common: inability to find jobs they need to become finan
cially independent. Most of the women are not eligible for unem
ployment insurance, group health insurance or pensions. Child sup
port and widow pensions are usually insufficient.
“We want to help women develop independence and economic
security,” says Horne, “and we try to do this in a number of different
ways.”
New Dimensions provides counseling, training and job placement,
Horne says. Through group counseling, homemakers discuss com
mon emotional and financial problems. The training programs help
develop skills in communication, money management and business.
They are assisted in locating jobs and getting interviews through the
program’s job placement service.
Horne says Texas A&M has been gracious in supporting the pro
gram.
Each month New Dimensions offers four workshops. Monday and
Tuesday a workshop will acquaint participants with employment op
portunities on Texas A&M’s campus. Those interested in participat
ing should contact Pamela Home. Jane Armstrong, manager of the
Texas A&M Personnel Department, will be one of the speakers.
“We have 230 vacancies from unskilled jobs to secretarial duties to
post doctorate positions,” Armstrong said. “We do have jobs they all
could do.”
One of the participants said she has already found the program
beneficial.
“Interacting with other women I am finding that everyone has
problems in common,” she said. “It has already helped me find some
temporary employment.”
Another displaced homemaker gave her reasons for participating.
“I have found it emotionally supportive to find that other women
are facing the same problems,’’she said. “Career orientations may
differ, but the emotional adjustment to think of ourselves as indepen
dent units is similar.”
Horne says concern for the displaced homemaker is growing, re
flected in national legislation that recognizes the plight. She said the
U.S. Department of Labor recently pledged to spend $5 million on
the program.
The program at Texas A&M was organized in September and is
operating out of Texas Engineering Extension Service. It is financed
by a grant from the Texas Education Agency.
Horne says centers for displaced homemakers are located from
Alaska to New Mexico. Three other centers are in Texas.
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