Interrelations among gender-role conflict, typicality of occupations, and self-esteem.
The present study was conducted with 549 women and men who were employed in gender-typical occupations or who were in vocational training, further qualification, or retraining for one of these job. We examined whether a gender-typical occupation is related to gender-role conflicts of women and men in work settings and whether self-esteem moderates the experiences of conflict. Generally, we cannot confirm influence of gender-typical jobs on experience of conflict. The results, however, supply evidence for the fact that women experience higher gender-role conflicts than men in all occupations. Women and men of low self-esteem engaged in typically female occupations experience especially high gender-role conflict.
Rustemeyer
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University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. ruste@uni-koblenz.de
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009790:Occupations; D012649:Self Concept; D013240:Stereotyping; D014829:Vocational Education