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Judd, 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

Neimeyer, Greg J.; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1988
Examined reasons underlying the reported sex differences in structural features of vocational schemas. Controlled for type of rated occupation in determining structural features, and for individual career orientation. Found only gender had a significant impact on structural features. Women showed higher levels of vocational integration, and men…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Planning, Employment Patterns, Higher Education
Kauppinen-Toropainen, Kaisa – 1987
The Finnish labor market is sharply segregated by sex. Previous research has shown the work of women to be inferior to that of men in that the work of women is less autonomous, allows less freedom for self-regulation and self-determination, is more restricted in space and time, and is more monotonous. This study sought to determine whether the…
Descriptors: Employees, Employment Patterns, Foreign Countries, Labor Market

Lancaster, Anita R.; Drasgow, Fritz – Psychological Assessment, 1994
The role of vocational counseling in the career exploration process of young people is examined. It is argued that providing information about abilities and interests via same-sex and opposite-sex norms conveys more information than use of norms based on an overall group and facilitates exploration of nontraditional careers. (SLD)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Exploration, Employment Patterns
Wichowski, Chester P.; DuMond, Doreen C. – 1980
A pilot study was conducted to identify sex role factors which could affect the search for employment and the adjustment to employment for vocational graduates in selected occupational areas. Target employment areas were identified through a review of occupations with a disproportionate composition by one sex or the other. These included…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Employment Patterns, Employment Problems, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)

Lyon, E. Stina – Higher Education, 1996
Analysis of employment and higher education patterns among women in Britain, Germany, and Sweden found discipline is the major factor influencing labor market entry, with most women preparing for traditionally female occupations and following financially less rewarding careers. While women in nontraditional occupations begin with an economic…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Comparative Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Trends
Monk-Turner, Elizabeth – 1984
A study examined the ways in which cyclical changes in the business cycle affect unemployment rates by sex in male-dominated occupations and industries. Using data from the monthly reports on employment and earnings issued by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (1969-1982), the report examined employment rates in selected male-dominated and…
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Comparative Analysis, Economic Factors, Employed Women
Stenstrom, Marja-Leena – 1995
A study determined the extent of gender stratification in Finnish vocational education and labor force, especially in the transition from school to work. It used follow-up data that Statistics Finland gathered in 1990 concerning the labor force status of the 1985 school leavers and the level of their educational qualifications 5 years later to…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Education Work Relationship, Employment Patterns, Enrollment Influences
Daune-Richard, Anne-Marie – Training & Employment: French Dimensions Newsletter, 1992
French statistics show that in the area of training and employment, differences in behavior patterns between men and women have diminished considerably. Nonetheless, sexual segregation remains strong, especially in scientific and technical fields. Distribution among training streams remains uneven. In tertiary and upper-level education and…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Course Selection (Students), Employment Patterns, Engineers
Fagan, Colette; Burchell, Brendan – 2002
Trends in gender, jobs, and working conditions in the European Union (EU) were examined. In 2000, representative samples of approximately 1,500 workers in each of the EU member states (500 in Luxembourg) were surveyed. To identify trends, the survey findings were compared with those of similar surveys conducted in 1991 and 1996. The comparison…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Employment Qualifications
Ransome, Paul – 1995
The question of whether recent changes in the labor market will likely have an adverse effect on people's expectations of work and their willingness to participate in the labor process was examined in a study of the impact of mass unemployment on expectations of work and productivity. Data regarding employment/unemployment and productivity in the…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Foreign Countries, Job Layoff
Jensen, Jytte Juul – 1996
For some years, the European Commission on Childcare and Other Measures to Reconcile Employment and Family Responsibilities has given priority to the role of men as caregivers. Work in child care services remains one of the most gender-segregated occupations in the entire labor force, and this discussion paper adopts a clear position that more men…
Descriptors: Caregiver Attitudes, Caregiver Training, Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers
Reskin, Barbara F., Ed.; Hartmann, Heidi I., Ed. – 1986
The literature on sex segregation in the workplace was reviewed to determine how it could be used in formulating policy in the area of sex fairness in the American labor market. The committee found that although women's occupational options have increased dramatically in the past decade, sex segregation is still widespread. Among those factors…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices
Hofferth, Sandra L. – 1980
A study examined the differential effects of experiences prior to labor force entry, primarily in high school, on the later sex-typicality of occupations and earnings of non-college-bound men and women. The study analyzed data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of the Labor Market Experiences of Young Men and Women. (These surveys lnvolved…
Descriptors: Blacks, Career Choice, Demography, Educational Background
Dumbrell, Tom; De Montfort, Rowena; Finnegan, Wendy; Wright, Peter – 2000
Differences in the earnings of male and female graduates of technical and further education (TAFE) programs in Australia were examined in a study that focused primarily on graduates working full-time. Data were collected from the 1997 Graduate Destination Survey and from a series of focus groups and interviews with women TAFE graduates working in…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Programs, Comparative Analysis, Education Work Relationship
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