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Gendered Futures: Student Visions of Career and Family on a College Campus
Author(s) -
Stone Linda,
McKee Nancy P.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.2000.31.1.67
Subject(s) - futures contract , ideology , vision , position (finance) , sociology , gender gap , higher education , gender studies , demographic economics , political science , politics , law , anthropology , financial economics , economics , finance
In the United States, female college students enter less prestigious occupations and earn far less than their male counterparts. Though some employers may discriminate against women, the “gender gap” in the workplace is also fostered by decisions made by women college students themselves. A study conducted on a university campus in the Northwest shows how men and women students position themselves differently for careers, marriage, and parenthood while sharing an ideology of gender difference.