Vocational Aspirations of Second-Grade Girls
- 1 February 1971
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 28 (1) , 241-242
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1971.28.1.241
Abstract
41 second-grade girls in a Catholic school were asked about their vocational interests or aspirations from two different perspectives: (a) their desired occupational goals and (b) their realistic expectations regarding their occupational goals. To the first question most girls nominated vocations which were very sex-role stereotyped and altruistic (nurse and teacher were most common); to the second question Ss tended to (a) repeat their original response, (b) change their expectation to becoming mothers and housewives, or (c) express that they did not know what they would be. The findings suggest that sex-role expectations pertaining to vocational aspirations are acquired and solidified far sooner than the time when the individual actually has to begin to make decisions regarding his adult life.Keywords
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