Parental Influences on Women Who Choose More Masculine Occupations

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Date

1976

Authors

Johnson, Miriam M.
Stockard, Jean

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University of Oregon

Abstract

Data from a large sample of high school women are compared with data from college women from diverse institutions with respect to findings concerning parental influences on the sex typing of their daughter's occupational choice. Among high school women, parental status factors are strongly associated with the daughter's choice of a more "masculine" job, while this is not true for the college sample. In both samples, however, the influence of the mother is greater than that of the father and some support is found for the hypothesis that a mother's having more education than the father is related to the daughter's being more likely to want a more "masculine" job. Only in the college sample is a mother's working outside the home associated with the daughter's choice of a more "masculine" occupation.

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46 pages.

Keywords

sex-typing, daughters, occupational choices, sex segregation, masculine

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