Studying Girls’ Opportunities to the Variation of the Field in Qom Vocational Training

This study has been done to review of the girls’ opportunity to the variation of the field in Qom
vocational training branch. The sample consisted of 318 female students of vocational training
in the 2010-2011 school years which selected in random, cluster, class and a structured
questionnaire was completed by them with 0.78 as reliability coefficient. The study shows that
only 33.4 percent of girls in the industry have the opportunity to select their profession. There
is a 95 percent of confidence interval for girls’ opportunity ratio in the industrial sector (38.6
and 28.2) which shows a significant difference of girls’ opinions on their opportunities. In
agricultural field, only 43.4 percent of girls have the opportunity to select their educational
field. There is a 95 percent of confidence interval for girls’ opportunity ratio in the agricultural
sector (48.8 and 38.0) which shows a significant difference of girls’ opinions their opportunities.
In service sector, only 51.7 percent of girls have the opportunity to select their educational
field. There is a 95 percent of confidence interval for girls’ opportunity ratio in the service
sector (46.5 and 57.2) which shows a non significant difference of girls’ opinions their
opportunities. Overall, only 9.3% of girls have the opportunity to select their educational field.
There is a 95 percent of confidence interval for girls’ opportunity ratio in the industrial sector
(6.1 and 12.5) which shows a non significant difference of girls’ opinions their opportunities.
Also, the possibility to prepare vocational training students for employment in the labor
market, the possibility of the role played by vocational training in providing employment for
young people – the influence of the future course for students on course selection – students’
interests in course selection and the possibility of keeping on the education in studentsinterested fields in university are all high. Students’ familiarity vocational training, skill-learning
workshops, access to proper jobs for graduates, opportunity to choose interested educational
field by female students and the possibility of continuing the education in university are all in
average for vocational training graduates. Personal interest in selecting educational field has
been the most important factor. Further, parents play an important role in selecting the
educational field by students.