Science achievement, attitudes and career selection of females: A review of research

Welborn, Tracey; McKenzie, Danny

doi:10.1007/bf03173018

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“…As with career selection, it is likely that negative attitudes toward some competences affect career decisions (Welborn and McKenzie, 1989). In other words, lack of competence or interests could be an important determinant for job selection.…”

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Ideal Careers Perceived by Education Major Undergraduates in Taiwan

Ho¹

2013

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The higher educational institutions produce several times as many college graduates each year as there are jobs available recently in Taiwan. This coupled with the deep recession of economy in recent years have contributed to the intensified competition for jobs. The fierce unemployment among young people has revived the demand on the contribution of educational system to the employability of college graduates. Since exploring how students define an ideal job is a prerequisite for guiding them get a job that better matches their skills and desires, this research is thus endeavored to identify the major determinants of career selection, to calculate the relative importance of each determinant, and to decide the major strengths of different careers. AHP was adopted as the major tool for calculating the relative importance of the determinants of career selection, Correspondence Analysis was used to create perceptual map for identifying major strengths of different careers. The results showed that Career Security and Retirement Policy were the most important determinants of job selection; moreover, students major in education preferred careers in public sectors such as public school teacher and government official.

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Ideal Careers Perceived by Education Major Undergraduates in Taiwan

Ho¹

2013

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“…The gender gap in the sciences and the social sciences has been debated for decades (Hengel 2017;Huang et al 2020;Monroe et al 2008;Welborn and McKenzie 1989). Numerous studies have documented gender disparities in multiple areas of academia.…”

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Is Matilda Playing it Safe? Gender in Computational Text Analysis Methods

van der Velden,

Dolinsky

2023

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Numerous studies document the gender gap in published articles in political science journals, observing systematic imbalances in the submission pool which result in a distored publication pattern. In this study we test some pathways that may explain the distorted submission pool: a) playing it safe due to the gender perception gap, and b) the Matilda effect, focusing on papers using Computational Text Analysis methods. Papers using Computational Text Analysis Methods are more likely to be published in journals with a 'masculinized' perception gap. When women are aiming for these journals, they might 'play it safe' by conducting more validation checks than their male colleagues. Moreover, embracing the Matilda effect – i.e. internalizing the systematic under-recognition of female scientists – women scholars are more likely to indicate that a) there are important training needs in more areas; and b) they themselves need (further) training in computational methods and use these reasons not to publish papers employing these methods. We test these claims using a) a unique content analysis of research articles published in the top 20 journals in communication science, political science, sociology and psychology between 2016 and 2020, identifying all 854 articles that involved some form of quantitative textual analysis; and b) a pre-registered expert survey of all authors of quantitative text analytic research identified via said content analysis, which inquired about researchers’ considerations and concerns in the application of computational text analytic strategies.

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Appraising Science Career Interests in Adolescent Girls and Boys

Collier

Spokane

Bazler

1998

Journal of Career Assessment

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Science career choice is partly determined by precursors such as enrollment in science and mathematics courses, which are, in turn, determined by factors such as attitudes toward science, participation in science activities, and science career preference. Participants were 1,501 students, Grades 4 through 10, from a large, national intervention study. Independent variables were gender and grade. Dependent variables measured attitude, activities, and career preference. Multivariate, univariate, and discriminant analysis and chi-square tests of association were used. Girls were less likely than boys to see science as a male activity or to believe they had not received serious attention from their science teachers. In contrast, girls were less likely than boys to see science as a fun puzzle to be solved. On three out of four measures of interest in Realistic and Investigative careers (Holland, 1997), girls showed less interest than boys. There were no gender differences for science activities and no gender-by-grade interaction effects. Results confirm the complex nature of attraction to a career in science and shed some light on differences between boys and girls in the understructure of science career interest.

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Science achievement, attitudes and career selection of females: A review of research

Cited by 3 publications

References 11 publications

Ideal Careers Perceived by Education Major Undergraduates in Taiwan

Ideal Careers Perceived by Education Major Undergraduates in Taiwan

Is Matilda Playing it Safe? Gender in Computational Text Analysis Methods

Appraising Science Career Interests in Adolescent Girls and Boys

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