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Peer reviewedJudd, Patricia C.; Oswald, Patricia A. – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1997
Investigated interactive effects of gender-typed profile (masculine, feminine), stimulus sex, and gender-typed occupation on employment desirability. Subjects (45 women and 35 men) rated the employment desirability of people described in scenarios. There was a significant main effect for gender-typed profile, but male and female raters did not…
Descriptors: Adults, Employment Patterns, Employment Potential, Employment Qualifications
Download full textMills, Carol J.; Tyrrell, Donald J. – 1980
A "release from proactive inhibition (PI) task" method examines the masculine-feminine connotation of a word as an attribute of encoding in memory. Male (N=45) and female (N=61) subjects were given four trials, each trial consisting of three occupations with all masculine or all feminine connotations, a subtraction task, and a recall…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Learning Processes
