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- Title
Fostering Occupational Role Innovation: Intervention Implications of Two Survey Studies.
- Authors
Lemkau, Jeanne Parr
- Abstract
The author discusses the implications for career counseling of her previous research on men and women in nontraditional occupations for their sex. <BR> Even after 2 decades of shifting sex roles, it is still not easy to reconcile one's identity as a man or woman in a gender-conscious society with one's identity as a worker in a non-traditional field for one's sex. Whether one is a woman engineer or a male librarian, one faces the conflict well-expressed by a male nurse, "I can't change the fact that I'm a male. But I'm a nurse, and I want to be accepted as a nurse" (Robinson, 1973). It is important for counselors and teachers of young people to be sensitive to the inevitable dilemmas faced by those who choose nontraditional careers and to do what they can to prepare young people to make daring choices and to thrive in the fields they choose. <BR> This article is addressed to professionals who work with adolescents during critical years for both career decisions and sex-role development. Several issues to be addressed in career counseling efforts will be discussed, as these are suggested by two survey studies on occupational innovators. Although the research will be briefly described, the reader is referred to previously published work for the details of research methodology and results (Lemkau 1979, 1983, 1984).
- Subjects
VOCATIONAL guidance; NONTRADITIONAL occupations; GENDER role in the work environment; GENDERISM; CASE studies
- Publication
Journal of Counseling & Development, 1984, Vol 63, Issue 2, p121
- ISSN
0748-9633
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/j.1556-6676.1984.tb02777.x