title: Career choices of lesbian women.
abstract: I focus on lesbian women's career choices and analyse how they explain their choices in relation to their sexuality. In addition to personal accounts and experiences, I use survey data that shows that several factors influence lesbian women's occupational circumstances. The Sexual Minority Survey included 726 respondents, of which 415 are women. The survey was conducted as part of the project Sexual and Gender Minorities at Work. Although many lesbian women claim that their sexuality did not influence their career choices, their career choice processes seem to be linked in many ways with sexuality, gender, and heteronormativity in society.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki, Finland. jukka.p.lehtonen@helsinki.fi
authors.forename: Jukka
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lehtonen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002321:Career Choice; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland / Q000453:epidemiology; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007587:Job Description; D008875:Middle Aged; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011287:Prejudice; D012938:Social Perception; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014931:Women, Working / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017132:Workplace / Q000706:statistics & numerical data