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ERIC Number: EJ375381
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1987
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Do You Want Your Daughter or Son in Your Trade? A Study of the Attitudes of Job Incumbents to Females Entering Male-Dominated Trades.
Davis, Denis J.
Comparative Education, v23 n3 p279-85 1987
Demonstrates how important the factor of male attitudes toward women pursuing male-dominated occupations can be in hindering the diversification of female occupational patterns. Examines the failure of a vigorous government-sponsored campaign in 1981 to introduce women into the male-dominated trades in the industrial region of Newcastle, Australia. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Employment Opportunities, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Father Attitudes, Females, Mathematics, Sex Discrimination, Sex Stereotypes, Skilled Occupations, Social Attitudes
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Australia (New South Wales)