Women's Career Aspirations and Achievements: College and Seven Years After

This report describes the educational, occupational, and familial behavior a panel of sixty-four women exhibited during the first seven yearsfollowing their college gradua tion. Their career patterns are compared with the aspirations they held as seniors in college. The findings reveal high consiste...

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Published in:Sociology of Work and Occupations 1980-08, Vol.7 (3), p.367-384
Main Authors: Almquist, Elizabeth M., Angrist, Shirley S., Mickelsen, Richard
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Achieve/Achiever/Achieved/ Achievement/ Achievements
Aspiration/Aspirational/Aspirations
Career/Careers
Colleges
Consistency
Education
Graduates
Occupation
Occupational
Strategy
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Woman/Women (see also Female)
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Summary:This report describes the educational, occupational, and familial behavior a panel of sixty-four women exhibited during the first seven yearsfollowing their college gradua tion. Their career patterns are compared with the aspirations they held as seniors in college. The findings reveal high consistency between senior aspirations and actual behavior on some items, e.g., mariage and graduate school, but less consistency on others, including occupational choice. Generally the women worked more often and had children less frequently than they had anticipated. The actual life style patterns of these women and their aspirations for the future result from the fact that women pursue a contingency strategy in organizing their adult lives.
ISSN:0730-8884
0093-9285
1552-8464
DOI:10.1177/073088848000700305