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Australian women and careers : psychological and contextual influences over the life course / Millicent E. Poole and Janice Langan-Fox.

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Australian women and careers : psychological and contextual influences over the life course / Millicent E. Poole and Janice Langan-Fox.
Author
Poole, Millicent
Publication
Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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Langan-Fox, Janice, 1946-
Description
xvi, 294 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Based on the Career Development Project, a longitudinal study of 5000 young men and women. Follows the lives of 1489 women from the age of 17 in 1973 to the age of 27 in 1982. Also studies a subsample of 30 women from childhood through to 1990.
Subject
  • Geschichte 1973-1990
  • Women > Longitudinal studies. > Australia
  • Career development > Australia > Longitudinal studies
  • Work and family > Australia > Longitudinal studies
Genre/Form
Longitudinal studies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-280) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Changing Perspectives on Work and Careers -- 2. Towards a Theory of Careers for Men and Women -- 3. The Career Development Project: Careers in a Transitional Context -- 4. Precursors To Career Orientation and Success -- 5. Career Plans, Motivations and Achievement -- 6. Attaining Professional Careers -- 7. Women and Success: Subjective and Objective Perceptions -- 8. Orientations in Women's Lives: Ambivalence and Conflict -- 9. Determining Career Orientations In Women -- 10. Career Dilemmas: Conflict In the Home-Work Nexus -- 11. Lifestyle Satisfaction -- 12. Contextualist Frameworks of Careers, The Career Development Project, and Changing Scenarios -- App. 1. Classification of Occupations using the Career Development Project data, 1973-82 -- App. 2. Details of Results for Assessed Model of 'Professional Attainment' (shown in Figure 6.2) -- App. 3. Details of Results for Assessed Model of 'Objective/Subjective Criteria of Success' (shown in Figure 7.2).
ISBN
  • 0521561450 (alk. paper)
  • 0521567572 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^96032047^
OCLC
  • 35192235
  • SCSB-10843603
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