Journal article
Why don't they want a male-dominated job? An investigation of young women who changed their occupational aspirations
Educational Research and Evaluation, Vol.12(4), pp.359-372
2006
Abstract
We examined 2 hypotheses regarding why some young women do not maintain their espoused occupational aspirations in male-dominated fields from late adolescence through young adulthood. The first hypothesis concerns attitudes towards math and science; the second concerns the desire for job flexibility. The sample of young women (N = 104) was taken from a larger longitudinal investigation of approximately 1,000 young women from a midwestern metropolitan area in Michigan, USA, who were followed from age 18 (in 1990) to age 25 (1997). Findings suggest that desire for a flexible job, high time demands of an occupation, and low intrinsic value of physical science were the best predictors of women changing their occupational aspirations out of male-dominated fields. These results suggest that despite the women's movement and more efforts in society to open occupational doors to traditional male-jobs for women, concerns about balancing career and family, together with lower value for science-related domains, continue to steer young women away from occupations in traditionally male-dominated fields, where their abilities and ambitions may lie.
Details
- Title
- Why don't they want a male-dominated job? An investigation of young women who changed their occupational aspirations
- Authors/Creators
- P.M. Frome (Author/Creator)C.J. Alfeld (Author/Creator)J.S. Eccles (Author/Creator)B.L. Barber (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Educational Research and Evaluation, Vol.12(4), pp.359-372
- Publisher
- Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
- Identifiers
- 991005543638307891
- Copyright
- 2006 Taylor & Francis
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Psychology
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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