Gender and occupational outcomes
Subtitle: longitudinal assessments of individual, social, and cultural influences
By: edited by Helen M.G. Watt and Jacquelynne S. Eccles.
Contributors: Watt, Helen M. G.; Eccles, Jacquelynne S.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781433803109
Subjects: Sexual division of labor -- Longitudinal studies; Sex differences in education -- Longitudinal studies; Women -- Education -- Longitudinal studies; Science -- Study and teaching -- Sex differences -- Longitudinal studies; Technical education -- Sex differences -- Longitudinal studies; Women in technology; Technical education; Women in science
Genres: Longitudinal studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Gender and occupational outcomes: an introduction / Helen M.G. Watt; title: Mathematics as the critical filter?; title: Gender, mathematics achievement, and the educational and occupational aspirations of Canadian youth / Jennifer D. Shapka, José F. Domene, and Daniel P. Keating; title: Mathematics as the critical filter: curricular effects on gendered career choices / Xin Ma and Willis Johnson; title: Psychological processes and gendered participation in math, science and technology-based careers; title: What motivates females and males to pursue sex-stereotyped careers? / Helen M.G. Watt; title: Gendered high school course selection as a precursor of gendered careers: the mediating role of self-concept and intrinsic value / Gabriel Nagy ... [et al.]; title: Testing for time-invariant and time-varying predictors of self-perceived ability in math, language arts, and science: a look at the gender factor / Barbara M. Byrne; title: A sociomotivational analysis of gender effects on persistence in science and technology: a 5-year longitudinal study / Simon Larose ... [et al.]; title: The importance of family considerations, family, and biology in gendered career choices; title: Is the desire for a family-flexible job keeping young women out of male-dominated occupations? / Pamela M. Frome ... [et al.]; title: Gender-typed occupational choices: the long-term impact of parents' beliefs and expectations / Christina S. Chhin, Martha M. Bleeker, and Janis E. Jacobs; title: Biological contributors to gendered occupational outcome: prenatal androgen effects on predictors of outcome / Sheri A. Berenbaum and Kristina L. Korman Bryk; title: Social and institutional constraints on women's career development; title: Gendered occupational outcomes from multilevel perspectives: the case of professional training and work in Turkey / Ahu Tatlı, Mustafa Özbilgin, and Fatma Küskü; title: Advancing women faculty in science and engineering: an effort in institutional transformation / Abigail Stewart and Danielle LaVaque-Manty; title: The continuing technological revolution: a comparison of three regions' strategies for creating women-inclusive workplaces / Christina M. Vogt.