Career Sex-Atypicality and Career Involvement of College Educated Women: Baseline Evidence from the 1960's

Abstract

This paper examines factors affecting the use of undergraduate training (full-time employment or professional training after the baccalaureate) and continuity in women's pursuit of sexatypical careers. Analyses utilize longitudinal data collected by the National Opinion Research Center from 1961 through 1968 on 1685 females who received undergraduate degrees in 1961. Causal models are estimated with career sex-atypicality and career involvement specified to be a function of educational preparation, previous career involvement, marital status and timing, and the support of sex-atypical career involvement from significant others. Findings indicate that a variety offactors account for labor force involvement but given that women are involved, quality and type of schooling and previous involvement with sex-atypical career fields are significant determinants of subsequent sex-atypical career involvements. Ways in which marital and family commitments and constraints inhibit the pursuit of sex-atypical careers among women and contemporary prerequisites for involvement with a career are discussed.

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