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Role Salience and Multiple Roles: A Gender Perspective
Author(s) -
Cook Ellen Piel
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
the career development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 2161-0045
pISSN - 0889-4019
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-0045.1994.tb00849.x
Subject(s) - salience (neuroscience) , salient , construct (python library) , perspective (graphical) , psychology , social psychology , life course approach , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , political science , law , artificial intelligence , computer science , programming language
This article describes Super's construct of role salience, and recent literature on gender issues in multiple roles that supports the wisdom of his basic ideas. Gender influences how individuals perceive various roles, role priorities and involvements over time, and role juggling during adulthood. Whether or not men and women report key roles as similarly salient; how they define, enact, and manage these roles may differ substantially. Personal variations in life careers remind counselors to explore clients' own life meanings as expressed in roles.