Curricular track, career choice, and androgyny among adolescent females.
This study investigated psychological androgyny among 40 high school girls from a college preparatory upper-level mathematics class and from a vocational track cosmetology class. It was hypothesized that the choice of curricular track would correspond to traditional sex-role stereotypes and that there would be a significant difference between the two groups in terms of feminine orientation. Neither hypothesis was supported. The cosmetology group was significantly more androgynous than was the upper-level mathematics group. The results are discussed in terms of implications for the prevailing perspective that career choices are linked to traditional sex-role stereotypes.
Wulff
M B
MB
University of Memphis, TN 38152, USA.
Steitz
J A
JA
D000293:Adolescent; D001505:Beauty Culture / Q000193:education; D002321:Career Choice; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D013240:Stereotyping; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D013714:Tennessee