Pink and Blue Collar Jobs: Children's Judgments of Job Status and Job Aspirations in Relation to Sex of Worker

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 346-363

  Liben, Lynn S ^a   Bigler, Rebecca S ^b   Krogh, Holleen R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood; Gender stereotyping; Jobs; Occupational status; Sex role development; Vocational aspirations; Vocational education

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OCCUPATION; PERCEPTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CAREER CHOICE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONS; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING; TEXAS;

EID: 0035434666     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.2000.2611     Document Type: Article

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