Families play a crucial role in the workplace readiness of their members.
Education leaders and policymakers need to understand how families contribute to readiness for work, and to explore ways to enhance and improve families' participation. Since the family is in a position to exert influence both before and after job prep interventions by schools, it makes sense to improve our understanding of its role. One reason is that Americans are used to isolating family life from work life. Clearly, workforce education policy and practice cannot continue to separate family and work according to a model of the family based in the past. Gender Roles Society's gender roles have a strong effect.