title: Career plans for male-dominated occupations among female seniors in religious and secular high schools.
abstract: This study investigated the hypothesis that the religious beliefs of young women significantly affect their career planning. All female seniors (N = 315) in one public religious and two public secular high schools in Israel responded to inventories examining their (1) orientation to homemaking or career, (2) interest in male-dominated occupations, and (3) preference for male-dominated occupations. Results from regression analyses indicated that young women from the secular schools, as compared to those from the religious school, expressed greater interest in and preference for male-dominated occupations. In addition, religious orientation, more than other background variables, had predictive power for interest in and preference for male-dominated occupations.
authors.affiliation: Graduate Program in Educational Counseling, School of Education, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Rich
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Golan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002321:Career Choice; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009790:Occupations; D011336:Probability; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012737:Sex Factors; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires