Is the Future Really Female? The Impact and Implications of Gender for 14-16 Year Olds' Career Choices

By B. Francis. 2002

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Teenage career aspirations and adult career attainment: The role of gender, social background and general cognitive ability (2011, background): “However, evidence from more recent studies suggests that teenaged girls have become more ambitious concerning their future occupations than boys (Francis, 2002; Mello, 2008; Schoon, 2006; Schoon, Martin, & Ross, 2007).”
Gender, toys and learning (2010, background): “Curriculum subject preference and choice remains strongly gender‐differentiated, in spite of the introduction of the National Curriculum (Arnot et al , 1999 ; Francis, 2000 , 2002 ; EOC, 2001 , 2004 ).”
Young Children's Aspirations in Science: The unequivocal, the uncertain and the unthinkable (2013, background): “For instance, UK research has shown that both boys and girls express high aspirations at ages 14–16, but these aspirations also reflect a gender dichotomy, with girls tending to express an interest in more ‘traditionally female’ occupations (Francis, 2002 ; Francis, Hutchings, Archer, & Melling, 2”
Career success: The role of teenage career aspirations, ambition value and gender in predicting adult social status and earnings (2010, background): “However, evidence from more recent studies suggests that despite gender-typical job choices and the fact that society often links the manager role to men (Heilman Block, & Martell, 1995; Richway & Correll, 2004) teenage girls are at least as likely, if not more so, than teenage boys to aspire to a p”
Who Aspires to a Science Career? A comparison of survey responses from primary and secondary school students (2015, background): “Additional research has explored the interrelationships between aspirations and structural factors such as gender (e.g. Eccles, 1994; Francis, 2002; Gutman, Schoon, & Sabates, 2012; Sikora & Pokropek, 2012; Turner & Lapan, 2005), ethnicity (e.g. Fouad & Byars-Winston, 2005; Riegle-Crumb, Moore, &…”
Accounting for the gender gaps in student performance in reading and mathematics: evidence from 31 countries (2008, background): “In the United Kingdom, Francis (2002) notes that boys’ underachievement has been linked to lower occupational aspirations.”
Career Aspirations of Women in the 20th Century (2007, result): “Despite these perceptions by women, findings from recent studies revealed that females showed an interest in a greater number of careers and exhibited more gender-role flexibility in their career aspirations than males (Francis, 2002; Mendez & Crawford, 2002; Wahl & Blackhurst, 2000).”
Obesity and Overweight (2011, background): “Generally speaking, adolescent boys express more interest in male-dominated and high-prestige occupational domains than adolescent girls (e.g., Bandura et al. 2001; Farmer et al. 1999; Francis 2002; Mendez and Crawford 2002; Turner et al. 2008).”
Science-related Aspirations Across the Primary–Secondary Divide: Evidence from two surveys in England (2014, background): “A substantial body of research has explored the interrelationships between aspirations and structural factors such as gender (Eccles, 1994; Francis, 2002; Turner & Lapan, 2005), ethnicity (Fouad & Byars-Winston, 2005; Strand & Winston, 2008) and social class (Atherton, Cymbir, Roberts, Page, &…”