Gender and Educational and Occupational Choices

Authors

Jacquelynne Sue Eccles, University of California, IrvineFollow

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Document Type

Article

Description

Why Do Women and Men Make Such Different Choices for Their Lives? In most cultures, women and men are concentrated in quite different occupations and roles. Why? This presentation goal is to provide one perspective on this quite complex question – a perspective grounded in Expectancy –Value Models of Achievement-related Choices

Publication/Submission Date

3-3-2006

Keywords

Gender, Occupational Choices, Females, Mathematics, Physical Science, Education

Disciplines

Education | Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Comments

Acknowledgments: This research was funded by grants from NIMH, NSF, and NICHD to Eccles and by grants from NSF, Spencer Foundation, and W.T. Grant to Eccles and Barber

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Eccles, Jacquelynne Sue, "Gender and Educational and Occupational Choices" (2006). STEM for Success Resources. 7.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/stemresources/7