Assessing job search intensity and unemployment-related attitudes among young adults: Intergender differences

The study assesses intergender differences in job search intensity and atti tudes toward unemployment among a sample of 225 single, childless, young ad ult Israelis applying for their first job. The findings revealed considerab le gender differences in reasons for rejecting potential jobs. Young women are more likely than young men to reject jobs due to adverse job conditions , family considerations, and masculine sex-typed employment. In contrast, y oung men showed a greater tendency to reject potential jobs for only one re ason, that is, feminine sex-typed employment. In addition, women's nonfinan cial commitment to work is higher than that of men, whereas the latter perc eived unemployment as a most stigmatic situation. The more popular job sear ch strategies used by both men and women were answering ads by phone and as king friends about potential jobs. No significant gender-based differences were found for job search intensity.