Gender and Job Values

Age, Period, and Cohort Differences in Work Centrality and Work Values

“…Female respondents think that good pay is less important, whereas good hours are more important, which might reflect the distribution of household tasks and breadwinning roles within the family. These findings are in line with previous papers that found that education is related to higher importance of intrinsic and altruistic values [49,51,54], intrinsic and altruistic work values are more important, whereas extrinsic values are less important for women than for men [49,51,55,56], and being married is associated with higher extrinsic values [49,50] (Figure 4). 1990-1994 and 1995-1999, and the probability of job security being selected is the highest in 1995-1999 and decreases slightly thereafter 17 .…”

Stability and change in values: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies

“…Adolescents tend to hold high occupational aspirations and attach a great deal of importance to many values during their 24 educational process, which exceeds what can be offered in the labor market (Johnson, 2002;Marini, Fan, Finley, & Beutel, 1996). Eventually, individuals are more selective about their values after they leave school, and value some rewards less highly.…”

Gender stereotyping within career and technical education : exploring relationships among gender, coursetaking, and outcomes of high school CTE students.

“…Research has shown that males show a greater interest in masculine jobs and females show a greater interest in feminine jobs. Marini, Fan, Finley, and Beutel (1996) found that gender was the number one influence on occupational values, explaining more variance than background characteristics such as race, parental education, mother's employment, community of origin, or religion. Since women and men attach different levels of importance to various job attributes, they are often drawn to different jobs, which segments the occupational market.…”

“…It is well established that men are more likely to pursue traditional, maledominated occupations and females are more likely to pursue traditional, femaledominated occupations (Marini et al, 1996;Weisgram et al, 2010). However, not all males and females pursue stereotypic sex-typed jobs, instead opting for employment in nontraditional careers, typically defined as a career in which 25% of the workers are predominately one gender (U.S. Department of Labor, 2010).…”

“…Gottfredson's (1981) theory of circumscription and compromise explained the process by which individuals select and eliminate careers based upon their gender. In general, males tend to select masculine-oriented jobs while females select female-oriented occupations (Marini et al, 1996; U.S. Census Bureau, 2012;Weisgram et al, 2010). The avoidance of gender-role conflict is proffered as one reason why people self-select themselves into gender traditional careers (Chusmir & Koberg, 1988).…”