The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of education, social class, sex, and age on responses pertaining to deterrents to women entering non-traditional occupations. To attempt to answer six research questions that were proposed, 16 hypotheses were tested. The first four hypotheses dealt with differences between two levels each of education--one year of college or more and high school or less; social class--low-middle and middle-high; sex--male and female; and age--18-30 and 31 or more. The hypotheses 5-15 dealt with various interactions of the four factors. Hypothesis 16 was tested to determine differences between responses of subjects who had been exposed to employment in non-traditional occupations and responses of subjects who had not been so exposed. / A stratified random sample of adults 18 or more years old in the central section of Brevard County, Florida, were used in the study. Twenty subjects in each of 16 strata were interviewed using a questionnaire entitled "Survey of Women's Attitudes About Careers" (Thomas, et al., 1970). / It was hypothesized that the factors education, social class, sex, and age, and the interactions of those factors have an effect on the responses of subjects pertaining to the deterrents to women entering non-traditional occupations. The results of the study indicate that these factors and their interactions do affect subjects' responses to statements about deterrents to women entering non-traditional occupations. The main effects of high school or less education, low-middle social class, female, and 31 or more years of age were consistently dominant forces in affecting strength of agreement with deterrent statements throughout the study. Age was the factor which showed the greatest effect on the responses of the subjects in this research. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-12, Section: A, page: 4054. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74979 |
| Contributors | HASKINS, MARY ELIZABETH WOLFE., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 307 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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