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Understanding Educational and Occupational Choices
Author(s) -
Eccles Jacquelynne S.
Publication year - 2011
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.1540-4560.2011.01718.x
Subject(s) - set (abstract data type) , focus (optics) , work (physics) , field (mathematics) , engineering ethics , sociology , mathematics education , data science , computer science , psychology , engineering , mathematics , mechanical engineering , physics , pure mathematics , optics , programming language
I am delighted to write the commentary for this very rich set of papers. It is wonderful to have such a diverse set of papers together in one volume. When I began my work on this topic in the mid 1970s, the focus in the field was entirely on the underrepresentation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, the theoretical tools were quite limited, and the scholars were all of European‐American heritage. These papers illustrate how far this area of study has advanced along each of these dimensions.