WOMENS MOTIVATION RELATED TO MASTERY, CAREER SALIENCE, AND CAREER ASPIRATION - A MULTIVARIATE MODEL FOCUSING ON THE EFFECTS OF SEX-ROLE SOCIALIZATION

This model focuses on three motivation dimensions, career salience, ca reer aspiration, and mastery, in an effort to understand better why wo men contribute less to the arts, sciences, and humanities. The model, conceived in the 1970s and extended in the 1980s, is grounded in socia l learning theory and emphasizes how sex role socialization affects wo men's career motivation. This model guided the design of a longitudina l study, first funded in 1978, for which data was collected in 1980, 1 990, and 1991 to 1993. Participants in 1980 were 9th and 12th grade st udents in six high schools in the Midwest: two rural, two suburban, an d two inner city. Measures included to test the model are briefly pres ented, as are summary findings.