Occupational roles are sex-typed by six- to ten-year-old children

✍ Scribed by Ruth F. Scheresky

• Book ID: 101360275
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 338 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0033-3085
• DOI: 10.1002/1520-6807(197704)14:2<220::aid-pits2310140219>3.0.co;2-8

✦ Synopsis

Stale Uitiversity

IXfferences in children's acceptance of occupational roles which are traditionally sex-typed by society were explored for a sample of 270 elementary school children (YO at each of the age levels of 6, 8, and 10 years). The degree of sex typing was high amcng all subjects. Children at each age level viewed occupational roles for both men and women similarly to the traditional sex-typed role views.