Effect of experience with nontraditional workers on psychological and social dimensions of occupational sex-role stereotyping by elementary school children.
AngloAmerican and Hispanic boys and girls ages 6 to 11 yr. (N = 219) were exposed to nontraditional workers within their elementary school classrooms. They rated 30 occupations as appropriate for men, women, or both men and women, on a pre- and posttest for a social dimension score (attribution of occupational sex-role stereotypes to others). Pre- and posttest fixed-choice selection of individual career aspirations indicated a psychological dimension score (individual job preference). Traditionality was measured from the child's point of view, not an adult concensus. Analysis shows: (a) When students are exposed to nontraditional role models their attitudes become less sex-typed on the social but not on the psychological dimension. (b) Sex and age affected career choices. (c) Historical-cultural (i.e., women's movement) events appear to have affected the children's attitudes on the social dimension.
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Instructional Program, College of Education, University of Central Florida, Orlando 32816-0250.
Nihlen
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D002321:Career Choice; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D008297:Male; D013240:Stereotyping