Successful Women and Women's Colleges: Is There an Intervening Variable in the Reported Relationship?

Examined the relationship between career success and the baccalaureate degree origin of women. Analysis of 126 successful women confirm that women's college graduates were more likely to be successful than graduates of coeducational institutions. Results also identify graduate education as a po...

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Published in:Sex roles 1995-10, Vol.33 (7-8), p.489-497
Main Author: Ledman, Robert E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Baccalaureate Degrees
Bachelors Degrees
Biological and medical sciences
Career Patterns
Careers
Coeducation
College Graduates
Colleges
Colleges & universities
Comparative Analysis
Educational Attainment
Employed Women
Factors
Females
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Graduate studies
Job Satisfaction
Occupational Achievement
Occupational psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Single Sex Colleges
Single sex higher education
Social Science Research
Success
United States of America
USA
Women
Women Administrators
Womens Education
Work condition. Job performance. Stress
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Summary:Examined the relationship between career success and the baccalaureate degree origin of women. Analysis of 126 successful women confirm that women's college graduates were more likely to be successful than graduates of coeducational institutions. Results also identify graduate education as a possible intervening variable in the relationship. (GR)
ISSN:0360-0025
1573-2762
DOI:10.1007/BF01544675