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Gender Similarity or Gender Difference? Contemporary Women's and Men's Career Patterns
Author(s) -
Whitmarsh Lona,
Wentworth Diane Keyser
Publication year - 2012
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.2161-0045.2012.00005.x
Subject(s) - generalizability theory , career development , similarity (geometry) , newspaper , gender studies , cohort , psychology , casual , sociology , social psychology , developmental psychology , political science , medicine , media studies , law , artificial intelligence , computer science , image (mathematics)
Career development research has often explored gender differences in and development of career patterns (Gottfredson, 2006). Hyde's (2005) meta‐analysis indicated that men and women shared more similarities than differences. Applying Hyde's gender similarities hypothesis to careers, the authors conducted a 2‐stage study. Stage 1 was an analysis of career choices of couples (a socioeconomically and educationally advantaged group) announcing their wedding in the New York Times . Stage 2 was a comparison of a New York Times wedding cohort with a cohort from 11 other U.S. newspapers, examining national trends and exploring generalizability of the findings from Stage 1 of the study. Results revealed that there are shifting trends in career choices, most notably in the legal profession.