Multicultural and Gender Influences in Women's Career Development: An Ecological Perspective
✍ Scribed by Ellen P. Cook; Mary J. Heppner; Karen M. O'Brien
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 78 KB
- Volume
- 33
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0883-8534
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✦ Synopsis
Any framework used to conceptualize the career development of women and of racial and ethnic minorities must accommodate multiple influences shaping their experiences concurrently and over time. An ecological model of counseling is proposed to expand conceptualizations and interventions of counseling practice with diverse groups of individuals.
Cualquier armazón utilizado para conceptualizar el desarrollo de la carrera de mujeres y de minorías raciales y étnicas debe acomodar múltiples influencias que forman sus experiencias concurrentemente y con el tiempo. Un modelo ecológico de aconsejar se propone ensanchar las conceptualizaciones y las intervenciones de aconsejar la práctica con grupos diversos de individuos.
W
omen from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds constitute a rapidly growing career counseling clientele much less visible a few years ago. Traditional models of career development evolved at a time when the typical worker was visualized as young, male, White, able bodied, publicly heterosexual, and ethnically homogeneous (White immigrants from Western Europe). However, today's U.S. labor force is far from homogeneous. As Bingham and Ward (1994) noted, "If vocational counseling was born from the changing demographics and economic needs of this century, then clearly career counseling will need to change in response to the changing needs of the coming century" (p. 168). Although the practice of career counseling has become increasingly extended to populations varying in age, sociocultural status, race or ethnicity, and gender, it has generally fallen short in understanding the needs of girls and women, particularly those of color (Gysbers, Heppner, & Johnston, 1998).