Sex-Typing and Change in the Occupational Choices of High School Seniors: 1964-1975
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Comparison of occupational plans and preferences of graudating high school seniors in 1964 and 1975 shows a substantial reduction in the sex-typing Qf occupational choice, especially for female students, and female and male distributions converge over the period.
Abstract
Comparison of occupational plans and preferences of graudating high school seniors in 1964 and 1975 shows a substantial reduction in the sex-typing Qf occupational choice, especially for female students. Female and male distributions converge over the period, primarily as a result of increased female choice of traditional male white-collar occupations. Choices of traditional female occupations remain sex-typed as do those for skilled male blue-collar occupations. The general trend of convergence was partly counteracted by the emergence in 1975 of choices for a number of sex-typed occupations that had not been sex-typed in 1964. Thus, while convergence in choice occurred, the majoirty of students in 1975 still expected and hoped to enter predominantly male or female occupations.