Male and female subjects rated a standardized, professionally drawn female in 12 outfits as to impressions they would make in job interviews. The 12 jobs represented combinations of high- and low-status and male-dominated and female-dominated occupations. Discusses outfits and suggests women made better impressions when applying for…

Clarifies the extent to which an individual's fear of success scores may vary with the presence or absence of occupational deviance and/or role overload in stimulus materials describing situations of female competitive success. Results suggest that fear of success is a misnomer for responses to women's role descriptions. (Author/JLF)

Women administrators experienced lower levels of stress than their male counterparts, particularly with respect to boundary-spanning stress and conflict-mediating stress, both of which relate to stress arising from the management of the organization-external environment interface. Women administrators stood up to the pressures of their job better…

Literature on women in occupations where men predominate is reviewed from 1930 through 1976 and discussed with reference to women's personality and background characteristics. Data are discussed as supporting Almquist and Angrist's "enrichment hypothesis" whereby the nontraditional woman is seen as the product of unusual, positive factors. (Author)

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…

Examined student (N=188) responses to measures of Expectancy and Valence to six male- and six female-dominated careers. Found that Expectancy X Valence interaction for occupation accounted for variance in choosing occupation; gender differences were marked and consistent across expectancy, valence, and likelihood of choosing occupation, varying…

Examined perceptions toward student career choices of 197 Canadian teachers. Each teacher examined one of eight vignettes describing student currently making career decision. Vignettes varied by gender, type of occupational choice, and traditionality of extracurricular activities. Found that teachers were more likely to encourage traditional…

This study focused on the career choice dynamics of college students by examining sex differences in self-efficacy toward occupations that were perceived by the subjects as traditionally male- or female-oriented. The usefulness of self-efficacy as a predictor of career choice and the relationships between careers considered, efficacy beliefs about…

In a coal mining community, a survey revealed that the level of negative sentiment toward women coal miners was substantial and varied by gender role. Male coal miners were negative toward female co-workers, but they supported women's right to coal mine jobs, while female homemakers did not. (Author/CH)

Investigated the influence of sex role self concept on the choice of college major/career in 186 students. Results showed both sexes chose their major for traditional reasons (e.g., status, service) and placed little importance on considerations of sex appropriateness. Personal interests were more influential than future marriage plans. (JAC)

Attempts to determine the careers gifted females and males are planning, reasons for these choices, and the aspects they consider most important in a job. Addresses whether gifted females enter traditionally male fields in numbers comparable to gifted males. Results showed both chose a variety of jobs. (RC)

The degree of overlap between scores on male-normed and female-normed scales for Kuder Occupational Interest Survey criterion groups was studied. Results provide clues to sex-typical and sex-atypical interests of these groups. (Author)

Program completion rates were computed for males and females who were enrolled in traditional and nontraditional Comprehensive Employment and Training Act vocational training. Program completion rates for balance-of-state training programs were generally high with the exception of females enrolled in vocational training programs which have been…

Investigated vocational thinking of children by analyzing age and gender differences in types of questions children (N=122) would ask in their interactions with nontraditional workers. Findings revealed developmental changes in children's vocational thinking: younger children asked affective questions and older elementary children asked more…

The present experiment failed to replicate a widely-cited sexist bias in people's evaluations of occupations that was originally reported by Touhey (1974). College students (N=303) did not downgrade the prestige of masculine professions or upgrade that of feminine professions when told that the proportion of other-sex (i.e., minority)…