Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 1 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 4 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 9 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 12 |
Descriptor
| Career Choice | 12 |
| Gender Differences | 12 |
| Job Skills | 12 |
| Foreign Countries | 5 |
| Occupational Aspiration | 5 |
| Females | 3 |
| Majors (Students) | 3 |
| School Psychologists | 3 |
| Sex Stereotypes | 3 |
| Skill Development | 3 |
| Stereotypes | 3 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
Author
| Nancy, M. | 2 |
| Priyanga, K. | 2 |
| Ackehurst, Maree | 1 |
| Beede, David | 1 |
| Brunner, C. Cryss | 1 |
| Doms, Mark | 1 |
| Donna P. Bailey | 1 |
| Erzinger, Tania | 1 |
| Hampson, Sarah E. | 1 |
| Julian, Tiffany | 1 |
| Keily, Tom | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Publication Type
| Reports - Research | 8 |
| Journal Articles | 6 |
| Numerical/Quantitative Data | 2 |
| Books | 1 |
| Collected Works - Proceedings | 1 |
| Dissertations/Theses -… | 1 |
| Opinion Papers | 1 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
Education Level
| Secondary Education | 5 |
| Higher Education | 4 |
| Postsecondary Education | 4 |
| High Schools | 3 |
| Elementary Education | 2 |
| Early Childhood Education | 1 |
| Grade 5 | 1 |
| Grade 6 | 1 |
| Intermediate Grades | 1 |
| Middle Schools | 1 |
| Preschool Education | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Audience
Location
| Australia | 1 |
| Estonia | 1 |
| Finland | 1 |
| Hawaii | 1 |
| Indonesia | 1 |
| Japan | 1 |
| Latvia | 1 |
| Louisiana | 1 |
| Mexico | 1 |
| Norway | 1 |
| Philippines | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
| Watson Glaser Critical… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Direct linkDonna P. Bailey – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The manufacturing industry is crucial to the United States economy, constituting more than 10% of the gross domestic product (National Association of Manufacturing [NAM], 2022). However, the sector faces challenges such as a shortage of skilled labor and underrepresentation of women, which threaten its sustainability (NAM, 2023). Various…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Career Choice, Females, Disproportionate Representation
Peer reviewed
Download full textRelmasira, Stefanus Christian; Lai, Yiu Chi; So, Chi Fuk Henry – European Educational Researcher, 2021
The transformation of occupations in Indonesia due to digital technologies, especially in Artificial Intelligence, becomes a challenge for current educators to prepare their students for future work skills. This research study seeks to understand what students' career aspirations are and their teachers' predictions about their students' future…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Prediction, Occupational Aspiration
Learning and Work Institute, 2021
Digital skills will have a crucial role to play in the United Kingdom's (UK's) economy beyond the pandemic, helping to drive growth, productivity and innovation across the rest of the economy whilst building on the UK's status as a world-leader in digital tech. Our research looks at the future of digital skills, based on new large scale surveys of…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Job Skills, Employment Qualifications, Skill Development
Priyanga, K.; Nancy, M. – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2019
Background: A job is undertaken for a particular period of an individual's life and with chances for progress. The constructive way to know about the individual's inner strength. Career ability for high school students is essential to identify their capabilities in different career choices and choose the appropriate one, which helps in reaching…
Descriptors: High School Students, Job Skills, Career Choice, Gender Differences
Priyanga, K.; Nancy, M. – Online Submission, 2019
Background: A job is undertaken for a particular period of an individual's life and with chances for progress. The constructive way to know about the individual's inner strength. Career ability for high school students is essential to identify their capabilities in different career choices and choose the appropriate one, which helps in reaching…
Descriptors: High School Students, Job Skills, Career Choice, Gender Differences
Keily, Tom; McCann, Meghan – Education Commission of the States, 2021
Rural communities are not a monolith; they have unique challenges that require unique policy solutions. One of the best ways to understand the diversity of those challenges -- and, in turn, identify the most effective solutions -- is to hear directly from rural communities. This Special Report analyzes data from a 2020 Strada Education…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Rural Education, Postsecondary Education, Public Opinion
Orupabo, Julia – Journal of Education and Work, 2018
A key insight from studies of gender segregation is that the allocation of different groups to different positions in the labour market is strongly related to ascribed status. Shared gendered cultural beliefs generally portray men as more competent and of a higher status than women, and position some workers as more suited than others to perform…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Race, Ethnicity, Gender Differences
Misko, Josie; Ackehurst, Maree; Polvere, Rose-Anne; Erzinger, Tania; Korbel, Patrick – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2019
The role of vocational education and training (VET) in preparing secondary school students for employment, further training and the changing world of work has long been a topic of interest among employers, educationalists and policymakers. More recent attention has also been on VET's role in assisting in the development of non-technical skills…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Technical Education, Job Skills, Skill Development
Beede, David; Julian, Tiffany; Langdon, David; McKittrick, George; Khan, Beethika; Doms, Mark – US Department of Commerce, 2011
The science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) workforce is crucial to America's innovative capacity and global competitiveness. Yet women are vastly underrepresented in STEM jobs and among STEM degree holders despite making up nearly half of the U.S. workforce and half of the college-educated workforce. That leaves an untapped opportunity…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Role Models, Females, Sex Role
Woods, Stephen A.; Hampson, Sarah E. – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2010
To test aspects of a theory of the role of personality and gender on the development of vocational interests and their subsequent effects on adult occupational choices, the authors of this study examined associations among childhood personality traits, gender, and occupational environments more than 40 years later. Participants (N = 587) were…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Vocational Interests, Children, Personality
Brunner, C. Cryss; Kim, Yong-Lyun – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2010
The purpose of this essay is to examine and respond to Tom Glass's (2000) assertions about the dearth of women in the superintendency using the lenses of new data (from two large national studies) and analysis--an analysis that primarily focuses on women superintendents' and central office administrators' formal, experiential, and personal…
Descriptors: Females, Women Administrators, Superintendents, Males
Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2019
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2019, organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Modern psychology offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
