Sex Segregation in the Workplace Trends, Explanations, Remedies (1984) / Chapter Skim
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One area of special importance in Marini and Brinton's review relates to the math/ science issue in high school. Despite recent news articles suggesting that the difference in math/science ability between girls and boys may be due to girls' lack of testosterone, there is evidence that girls and boys with comparable levels of achievement in math and science at the end of the eighth grade take different amounts of math and science in high school.
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This may be one of the reasons that, looking at college students or young girls, one doesn't observe much of a change over time in sex-typed occupational aspirations. Once women have been working for a while and have had some negative experiences, they are more willing to entertain nontraditional career options than at younger ages, when peer group pressures are important forces reinforcing traditionally female aspirations.
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