McGee, JeanneStockard, Jean2023-04-192023-04-191991McGee, J., & Stockard, J. (1991). From a Child’s View: Children’s occupational knowledge and perceptions of occupational characteristics. Sociological Studies of Child Development, 4, 113—136. Retrieved from: https://pages.uoregon.edu/jeans/SSCD_1991.pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/2820413 pagesOnly a small amount of research has examined children's awareness or knowledge of occupational characteristics and the effect that gender has on their perceptions. Most of this earlier research dealt with only a few aspects of this area or had severe limitations in study design, scope, and/ or sampling frame. This paper explores children's occupational knowledge and perceptions of occupational characteristics using a large sample and a study design that avoids many of the problems in earlier works. Specifically we examine two areas. The first is children's occupational knowledge, including the extent to which boys and girls recognize a wide range of jobs; their views of their relative importance, monetary rewards, difficulty and control over others; and the degree to which the children's perceptions correspond to those from adults and/ or more objective measures. The second is the effect of gender on occupational perceptions including the extent to which children's own gender and the gender of the perceived occupant of a job affect perceptions of a given occupation.enCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USgender on perceptionjob recognitionchild developmentArticle