ABSTRACT
In beginning this chapter on implications for career practice, it is sobering, in view of our passion for career guidance, to reflect on its limited use by the women during the course of their careers and its absence from their advice to others. While the absence of, or limited reference to, career guidance and counselling by the women in the nine participating countries may be explained where career guidance has not traditionally held a place in society (e.g. China, South Africa), in other countries where it has been available to citizens for many years and where lifelong guidance is advocated (e.g. England, Canada, Australia), it is less easy to explain. Paradoxically, the women's stories also illustrate instances of career decision making and career transition where career guidance may have been beneficial.
