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Peer reviewedWalsh, W. Bruce; Huston, Robert E. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1988
Investigated differences among women and men (N=151) employed in traditional female occupations (staff nursing, elementary school teaching, librarianship) who took the Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI). Findings on the VPI Social, Investigative, Conventional, Enterprising and Artistic scales showed women, when compared to men in the same…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Librarians, Nurses, Personality Traits
Direct linkJome, LaRae M.; Surething, Nicole A.; Taylor, Kari K. – Journal of Career Development, 2005
This study explores the degree to which emotional and relationally oriented aspects of masculinity and gender nontraditional vocational interests predict the gender traditionality of employed men's occupations. Participants include 166 men employed in a range of occupations from gender nontraditional (i.e., female dominated) to gender neutral to…
Descriptors: Masculinity, Vocational Interests, Males, Nontraditional Occupations
