* Opens doors for every individual

* Do not let gender be a limiting factor when choosing a career

*Higher level of job satisfaction if a career choice matches an individuals interests, abilities, values, and personality

*Times have changed! -Years ago girls were not allowed to take shop and boys were forbidden to take home economics.

*A gender gap still exists. -According to the U.S. Department of Labor, 2001, although women have increased the amount earned per hour in relation to men in the past ten years, women in 2001 still earned only approximately 76 cents for every dollar of men's earnings.

*Allows one to think differently