Title:
The relationship between college women's occupational interest and a single-sex environment
Author:
Mona I. Rubenfeld
Committee Member:
Faith D. Gilroy
Committee Member:
Alan L. Plotkin
Committee Member:
Jon K. Lobe
Degree Granting Institution:
Loyola University Maryland--College of Arts and Sciences
Place:
Baltimore (Md.)
Publisher:
Loyola University Maryland
Date Created:
1988
Type of Resource:
text
Genre:
thesis
Language:
eng
Format:
application/pdf
Physical Form:
electronic
Digital Source:
reformatted digital
Abstract:
The present study was designed to investigate whether the environment in which a woman was reared has an influence upon her occupational interests. An occupational interest list was devised from the U. S. Bureau of Census List of Occupations. Occupational interest was measured by awarding one point for each traditional selection, three points for each neutral selection, and five points for each nontraditional selection. The subjects were 60 undergraduate women. A factorial analysis of variance was used to analyze the independent and interactive effects of siblings' gender and type of highschool on the occupational interests of the respondents. The analysis of variance yielded an F (1,56) = 0.57, n.s. for siblings' gender. In terms of the influence of the type of highschool, the analysis of variance yielded an F (1,56) = 28.09, p.01. A significant interaction was found between siblings' gender and type of highschool, F (1,56) = 10.35, p.01. The analysis indicated that although single-sex highschool affects the choice of nontraditional careers, it appeared to have its strongest effect on women's interest in nontraditional fields when those women were reared in a mixed sibling household. It appears therefore that the opportunity to interact in a single-sex environment is critical at some stage of a young woman's life, if she is to develop nontraditional interests.
Subject:
Brothers and sisters
Subject:
Sexual division of labor
Subject:
Vocational interests
Subject:
Women--Education
Subject:
Women--Employment
Degree:
Master of Arts
Level:
Master
Discipline:
Psychology
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Identifier:
RubenfeldMI-88
