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Women's selection of careers in engineering: Do traditional-nontraditional differences still exist?

, and . Journal of Vocational Behavior, (1989)

Abstract

Compared background and motivation of 82 high-achieving college women in engineering and science to those of 31 women in the humanities and social sciences. Areas of investigation included family composition and parental characteristics, childhood socialization, sources of support for career choice, and work characteristics. Significant differences were found only in the latter two areas. (TE)

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