Describes the current post-Superwoman era in which women are more free to make choices about homemaking and employment. Women are now secure enough in the workforce that they can quit or work part-time without feeling they have let the sisterhood down. (CB)

After recommending that they develop a firm self-concept and set of values, this article offers a number of suggestions for women seeking nontraditional careers. They include playing the power game, building significant male relationships, and seeking role models. (Author/BP)

Examines aspects of the corporate world that may lead to a slowdown of automatic promotions: decrease in unemployment, rise in population; premature structural job plateauing due to high technology; higher expectations by more people (especially women); and failure by schools to keep up with changes in the work world. (CT)

Concludes (1) that female newspaper managers are strongly committed to their jobs, (2) that they are setting goals but that their personal goals and those of the company have little connection, and (3) that most women expect to reach no more than two titles up from their present positions in the next five years. (FL)

The author suggests alternatives to chip away at occupational traditionalism and vestigal hang-ups shared by men and women about women in the world of work, and which encourage the development of programs to ensure that equal opportunity will be a reality. Background statistics are presented which indicate that women are increasingly entering the…

This study is concerned with the relationship between career orientation, choice of a predominantly masculine or feminine field, and feminine self-concept. It was predicted that career oriented women would see themselves as less feminine than noncareer oriented women and that women aspiring to predominantly male fields would see themselves as less…

Factor analysis of data from two samples identified nine indices of women's career orientation. Two factors accounted for significant variance common to the indices: career centeredness, which reflects the importance attached to a career relative to other life activities, and career commitment, which implies a commitment to lifetime employment.…

Counselors and educators can help clarify factors involved in the vocational choice process with high school and college girls, where these factors differ from those affecting men. Clarification should be built into high school and college guidance programs for girls. Society will gain if women choose careers commensurate with their potential.…

Suggests that counselors redirect their efforts toward using more concrete, active career-guidance experiences for Black youth and presents a model for Black females. The general outcome expected from participation in this action-oriented guidance model is a demonstrated ability to state personal, educational, and technical competencies;…

The relationship of race to career orientation among college women as measured on an eight-point scale of expectations ranging from "housewife only" through part-time work to "not married; career only" is examined. Demographic, developmental, and attitudinal antecedents of career orientation among 28 black and 45 white SES-stratified university…

Focuses on social determinants of attitudes towards career women over the last several decades and how changes in these attitudes have been reflected in the design and interpretation of psychological research. (Author/JM)

Women's career patterns and their implications for vocational-technical education. (Editor)

Approximately 50 percent of the 4-page questionnaires sent to a sample of 320 women librarians with doctorates were returned with usable responses for this 1977 survey requesting factual information on their education, experience, present position and salary, professional contributions, and personal characteristics. These women also responded to…

The kinds of vocational guidance available to women from 1910 to 1940 are discussed in this paper. As the number of women college graduates increased in the 1890s and especially in the first decade of the 20th century, concern also grew for what all these trained women would do to earn a living after they graduated and before they married (if they…

The influence of the mother in affecting her daughter's willingness to commit herself to a career as well as her perceptions of appropriate occupational choices were studied in a random sample of students in a two-year comprehensive community college. A structured questionnaire was administered to obtain basic demographic data and information…