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ERIC Number: EJ542041
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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ISSN: ISSN-0380-2361
Ethnicity, Gender, and Occupational Choice in Two Toronto Schools.
Maxwell, Mary Percival; And Others
Canadian Journal of Education, v21 n3 p257-79 Sum 1996
Data from 811 high school students from two city schools with good reputations for academic achievement in Toronto (Canada) show that ethnic groups of more recent arrival (immigration) to Canada show higher levels of occupational ambition than Anglo-Canadians and Euro-Canadians. Females appear to have higher ambitions than males. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, Ethnicity, Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools, Immigrants, Immigration, Inner City, Occupational Aspiration, Sex Differences, Urban Schools
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Canada; Toronto Public Schools ON
Note: Research supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Wenner Gren Foundation, the Canada Council, the Queen's University School of Graduate Studies, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.