The Relationship of Sex to Occupational Prestige
- 1 April 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in The Personnel and Guidance Journal
- Vol. 46 (8) , 765-772
- https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2164-4918.1968.tb03243.x
Abstract
This study asked the question, Does the prestige of an occupation vary with the sex of the worker? For example, do male and female vocational counselors have the same occupational prestige? An equisection scaling procedure was used to develop an instrument to measure occupational prestige. When this instrument was administered to a sample of graduate students in guidance, some significant results were found but none of them held up on cross‐validation. Neither was the differential allocation of prestige a function of the sex of the judge nor the form of the instrumentKeywords
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