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Social Values, Femininity, and the Development of Female Competence
Author(s) -
Sherman Julia A.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1976.tb02606.x
Subject(s) - femininity , competence (human resources) , socialization , psychology , developmental psychology , social competence , social change , social psychology , political science , psychoanalysis , law
An important current question is whether to socialize females to be competent or to be feminine. A second and related problem concerns socialization to promote maximal intellectual development in women. Major points of this paper are: (a) that the goals of femininity and competence are not necessarily the same, and (b) that little is known about how to rear females to be competent, partly because competence, especially intellectual competence, has never been considered an important goal for females. Approaches to social change are discussed.