Authors: Associates, N/A Associates
ISBN-13: 9780761904892, ISBN-10: 0761904891
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Sage Publications (CA)
Date Published: August 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)
How do women make career choices? What difference does cultural or economic background make for a woman's career development? How do women's and men's career development patterns compare? In Diversity and Women's Career Development, Helen S. Farmer and her associates present a variety of perspectives on career development for women. Their analysis and discussion grow out of an extensive study that looked at high school students in 1980, and then followed up with them in 1990 and 1993. The data provide glimpses into influences on women's life choices and motivation, goals and obstacles to reaching them, and comparisons of women's and men's career development patterns. They also offer insights into differences among ethnic and socioeconomic groups, as well as the influence of family on career development. Using the rich, longitudinal quantitative and qualitative data from this study, the authors examine issues surrounding women's career development, specifically focusing on motivation and persistence among women in particular career paths, and among diverse groups of women. The authors also allow the subjects of the study to speak in their own voices, illustrating vividly the personal processes involved in their career decision-making. This book will expand and enrich the work of anyone interested in women's careers, the impact of ethnicity and family on career development, and how girls and young women approach making life choices. Human resource development professionals will also find it useful and illuminating.
Series Editor's Introduction | ||
Preface | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
1 | Theoretical Overview: The Longitudinal Study | 3 |
2 | Women Who Persisted in Their High School Aspirations for Careers in Science or Technology | 37 |
3 | Why Women Don't Persist in Their High School Career Aspirations | 62 |
4 | Persisters and Career Changers in Technical Careers: Are There Gender Differences? | 81 |
5 | High-Achieving Women: Career Development Patterns | 95 |
6 | Gender Differences in Career Development | 127 |
7 | The Effects of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination on the Career Development of Minority Persons | 161 |
8 | Success in the Face of Adversity: Six Stories of Minority Career Achievement | 172 |
9 | The Career Development of Children of Immigrants | 187 |
10 | Socioeconomic Leaps: Achievement in the Next Generation | 198 |
11 | Career Development of Rural Men and Women: Different Priorities | 212 |
12 | Career Development in the Context of Family Experiences | 229 |
13 | Work and Family Roles: Finding a New Equilibrium | 243 |
14 | Career Counseling for the Next Decade and the Twenty-First Century | 271 |
15 | Future Directions for Research on Women's Career Development | 293 |
App. A | Characteristics of Participants in 1980 | 307 |
App. B | School Characteristics | 310 |
App. C | Interview Protocol | 317 |
App. D | Analysis Themes | 321 |
App. E | Rules for Classifying Occupations/Majors as Science or Technology | 324 |
References | 327 | |
Index of Study Participants | 337 | |
Index of Authors and Subjects | 338 | |
About the Authors | 343 |