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ERIC Number: EJ543742
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0305-5698
Gendered Career Choice: Is Sex-Stereotyping the Cause or the Consequence?
Lightbody, Pauline; Durndell, Alan
Educational Studies, v22 n2 p133-46 Jun 1996
Reports on a study where students were given characteristics of a target pupil and then asked which career area that pupil would pursue. Although the given characteristics refuted traditional stereotypes (male/social interests, female/technical interests) the students maintained that the target pupil would choose traditional careers. (MJP)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Decision Making, Educational Sociology, Family Influence, Foreign Countries, Interest Inventories, Peer Influence, Personality Traits, Secondary Education, Sex Differences, Sex Role, Sex Stereotypes, Social Influences, Student Characteristics, Vocational Evaluation, Vocational Interests
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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Identifiers: United Kingdom