On Women's Aspirations and Equal Opportunity
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Date
1988
Authors
Stockard, Jean
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Abstract
Today I want to comment briefly on the changes in women's position in our society over the last 20 years and the linkages between women's aspirations and the development of equal opportunity. I will first make a few general comments about changes in women's income, occupational aspirations and achievement; then describe preliminary results from my own study of women who "pioneered" in integrating male dominated fields in the last ten years; and, finally, discuss implications of these comments for understanding more about the movement toward greater equality.
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11 pages. Paper presented in Plenary Session on "The Human Rights Movement: An Assessment in Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr." at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Las Vegas.
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equal opportunity, women in civil rights, sex differences, aspirations, sex segregation