The Effect of Gender Roles to Carrier Efforts

Sex as a biological concept refers genetic, biological and physiological features of male and female however gender contains male and female’s places in society, expectations of society from them and perception of individuals and how to behave. Judgments of gender affect the individual’s behaviors, erspectives and expectations. Gender is crucial in university education due to having a decisive role in changing the perception of individual’s him/herself and the environment. Some areas are preferred by only girls or only boys owing to the gender perception and this is decisive in choosing an occupation. In this project, Thereby considering that gender perception creates barriers in education because of the built-in sense, it has been aimed to reveal the effects of the judgments about gender perception in career choice and development and exhibiting the attitude of individual intended for self-fulfillment. This project conforms to scientific qualifications and experimental data collection techniques are used. The effects of gender types and verities identified for the purpose of the survey will be analyzed by using structural equation modeling In this project, gender stereotypes of the students educated in Usak University’s 9 faculties and 2 graduate schools will be revealed thus the effect of gender stereotypes to their career efforts will be questioned. This study aims to discuss changing of the student’s gender perception and to measure of the changes to their carrier efforts when they begin the college/university education and during their education process. Purpose, Scope and Limits of the Study The aim of this study is to determine whether there is a difference between gender roles of people who have begun their university education and who completed this training and also to determine the effect of this difference on their career efforts. The scope of this research composes of first and fourth grade female students educated in Uşak University. In accordance with this scope, the University has only fourth grade students in Faculty of Education, Economics and Administrative Sciences, Science and Literature, Fine Arts and Engineering. This situation constitutes a significant limitation of our research. The results obtained in accordance with this limitation cannot be generalized to other faculties and universities. Expected Benefits from Research This research, which examines the effects of gender roles on career endeavors, is expected to achieve the following benefits: By determining the roles of female university students who are mothers of the future and, more importantly, will be important building blocks of the working life in society, not only demographic data but also social structures can ease decision making. Education and development programs can be prepared for advancement of this young people by determining the factors on their career efforts. Variables of the Research The research consists of three groups. First group variables are demographic and economic characteristics of respondents, the second group variables are gender roles and in the third group the expressions toward career efforts are included. Economic and demographic attributes involve common faculty, age and income variables. In order to determine gender roles a scale consisting of 48 expressions and developed by Zeyneloðlu and Terzioðlu (2011) have been used. The “Career Anchor Scale” consisting of 44 expressions and used