Openness to Gender Atypical Occupations in Youth: Do Peer Groups and School Classes Matter?

Autor/inn/en	Alm, Susanne; Bäckman, Olof
Titel	Openness to Gender Atypical Occupations in Youth: Do Peer Groups and School Classes Matter?
Quelle	In: Journal of Early Adolescence, 35 (2015) 1, S.97-119 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-4316
DOI	10.1177/0272431614527164
Schlagwörter	Gender Differences; Foreign Countries; Peer Groups; Regression (Statistics); Career Choice; Career Development; Sex Stereotypes; Socioeconomic Status; Grades (Scholastic); Occupational Aspiration; Longitudinal Studies; Databases; Peer Influence; Social Networks; Early Adolescents; Labor Market; Preferences; Sweden (Stockholm) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geschlechterkonflikt; Ausland; Gleichaltrigengruppe; Peer Group; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Berufsentwicklung; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Notenspiegel; Berufsneigung; Berufsziel; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Datenbank; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt
Abstract	The article analyses aspects of gender composition and social dominance in peer groups and school classes and their effects on the degree of openness to gender-atypical occupations in young adolescents. The data set used contains information for some 13,000 girls and boys living in Stockholm in the early 1960s. Results from multi-level regressions show that gender composition is significantly related to openness to gender-atypical occupations at peer-group level only. As the causal direction of this relationship can be questioned, the result should be interpreted with caution. Concerning aspects of dominance, quite substantive effects on individual openness to gender-atypical occupations are found for girls, albeit not for boys. Thus, for girls, the degree of openness to gender-atypical occupations of the most central girl in the school class significantly affects the degree of openness to gender-atypical occupations of individual girls in that school class. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10