If they are married but must work to supplement the family income. they cannot expect their husbands to give up jobs on the chance of employment in other areas. Most of them cannot take the advantage of being retrained because. unfortunately. their formal education makes it almost impossible to look to hightech jobs such as computer programming which require high school or college level education to be eligible. As a matter of fact. a survey of the 158.000 apparel workers who entered train. ing programs indicated that only 1.400 or onehalf of I percent completed training. Many of these workers are women who have just lately arrived from Asiatic countries such as China. Korea. Japan.
Identified stereotypes
Asiatic workers are assumed to have limited formal education and difficulty with high-tech jobs.