Recommendation Letters: Whose Voices Do They Represent?.

Seipel, Michael M. O.

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ERIC Number: EJ376489

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1988

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Recommendation Letters: Whose Voices Do They Represent?

Seipel, Michael M. O.

Journal of Social Work Education, v24 n2 p159-64 Spr-Sum 1988

Content analysis of 266 letters of recommendation for social work graduate school applicants found males more often associated with male stereotype traits and females more often associated with female stereotype traits. This suggests Gililigan's "different voice" theory of gender-based differences in values. Ending this dichotomy is recommended. (MSE)

Descriptors: College Applicants, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Individual Characteristics, Letters (Correspondence), Personality Traits, Professional Education, Sex Differences, Sex Stereotypes, Social Values, Social Work

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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