TY - JOUR
AU - Goff, Susan B.
AB - Educational Psychologist, 1978 Vol. 13, 93-96 Jacquelynne E. Parsons Susan B. Goff University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Unequal participation of the sexes in women seek and the skills they acquire. the domain of employment has become The study proposed herein is designed increasingly difficult to ignore. Although to investigate one set of intrapsychic increasing numbers of women are work- variables that might influence women's ing, these women are still concentrated career aspirations; namely, those associ- in the lower levels of the professional ated with the value and motivational com- hierarchy in spite of attempts in recent ponents of the expectancy x value model years to decrease discrimination in hiring of task choice (Weiner, 1972). Bakan and salaries of women. For example, the (1966) suggested that there are two basic percentage of women in professional and modalities of life that encompass both technical occupations has increased from values and motivation, "communion" and 39% in 1968 to 42% in 1976 while during "agency," and that men and women, as the same time period the percentage of collectives, differ in their orientation to women clerical workers increased from these modalities. Women, much more 73% to 80% (U.S. Department of Labor, than men, 
TI - Achievement motivation: A dual modality
JF - Educational Psychologist
DO - 10.1080/00461527809529199
DA - 1978-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/achievement-motivation-a-dual-modality-8zRm2DesMF
SP - 93
EP - 96
VL - 13
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -