[Longitudinal study on the determinants of career choice among young women: to continue or change jobs].
This longitudinal study over the five-year period of 1988-1993 seeks to ascertain the determinants of young women's career choice-continued employment with same organization or changing employment organization. Another purpose of the study is to compare the characteristics between two types of career choices. The sample consists of 204 employed women with a variety of occupations who are in their 20s and early 30s. They previously or currently work in Tokyo. Using chi-square tests, t-tests, and canonical discriminant analyses it is found that the determinant to continue employment with same organization is the desire for a lifetime career. The determinants of changing employment organization are shorter-educational-training professional jobs and high income. The comparison of the characteristics of the two types of women in 1993 shows that a woman who continues employment with the same organization for 7-8 years has a higher egalitarian sex role attitude, higher income, is a mother, and is in a managerial position. The woman who changes employment organization is older and has a shorter-educational-training-professional job.
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Department of Sociology, Edogawa University, Nagareyama.
D000367:Age Factors; D002321:Career Choice; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D011287:Prejudice; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014931:Women, Working / Q000523:psychology*