Women, careers, and work-life preferences

By C. Hakim. 2006

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Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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The Psychology of Careers in Industrial - Organizational Settings: A Critical but Appreciative Analysis (2008, methodology): “navigate the course of one’s life” (Briscoe & Hall, 2006, p. 5). Is this to suggest that people without a sense of boundarylessness will invariably be unsuccessful in this journey? It seems to be assumed that being a “values-driven” person necessarily means valuing self-expression and autonomy, and ”
Career success: The role of teenage career aspirations, ambition value and gender in predicting adult social status and earnings (2010, background): “…in winner-take-all environments (e.g., Dreber, von Essen & Ranehill, 2009; Gneezy, Niederle, & Rustichini, 2003; Gneezy & Rustichini 2004; Hakim, 2006; Niederle & Vesterlund, 2007) and lower levels of aspirations and ambition (e.g., Fels, 2004; Reis, 1991, Paton, 2006; van Vianen &…”
Sex differences in the right tail of cognitive abilities: A 30 year examination (2010, background): “Inparticular,researchonpreferences(Ceci&Williams,2010; Ceci et al., 2009; Eccles & Jacobs, 1986; Ferriman et al., 2009; Hakim, 2006; Halpern et al., 2007) shows that, on average, females are more drawn to people while males are more drawn to things (Lippa, 1998; Su, Rounds, & Armstrong, 2009) and…”
What motivates females and males to pursue careers in mathematics and science? (2016, background): “Females believe that it is more important to make occupational sacrifices for the family than do males (Eccles et al., 1999; Hakim, 2006).”
Gender Gap in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM): Current Knowledge, Implications for Practice, Policy, and Future Directions (2016, unknown): “Women are not only more willing than men to make occupational sacrifices for the sake of their families (Eccles et al. 1999), they also prefer work-centered lifestyles at lower rates than their male counterparts (Hakim 2006).”
The Effect of Gender Stereotypes on Explicit and Implicit Career Preferences (2009, background): “Although women’s occupational choices are less traditional today than they were three decades ago (Betz, Heesacker, & Shuttleworth, 1990; evetts, 2000; Hakim, 2006) and the gap between male and female labor force participation has decreased in almost all countries (elder & Johnson, 2001), the overal”
Exploring types of career orientation: A latent class analysis approach (2009, background): “Accordingly, Hakim (2000, 2006) identified three types of career in her work on women’s careers in the UK and the US.”
Motivational Pathways to STEM Career Choices: Using Expectancy-Value Perspective to Understand Individual and Gender Differences in STEM Fields. (2013, background): “STEM careers as incompatible with achieving a desired work-family balance (Hakim, 2006).”
Men, women and STEM: Why the differences and what should be done? (2020, background): “Nonetheless, some priorities are more common among men than women, and others among women than men (Bolotnyy & Emanuel, 2019; Hakim, 2005, 2006; Konrad et al., 2000; Schwartz & Rubel, 2005).”