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- Title
Pursuit of Nontraditional Occupations: Fear of Success or Fear of Not Being Chosen?
- Authors
Pfost, Karen S.; Fiore, Maria
- Abstract
To determine whether fear of success reflects realistic expectations of the negative consequences of deviance rather than a motive, reactions to ‘gender-inappropriate’ achievement by women and men were investigated. Occupational choices (masculine or feminine) and academic performance (successful or neutral-unknown) of target descriptions were crossed. Women described and seeking ‘masculine’ occupations were perceived by women and men as least preferable heterosexual romantic partners. Similarly, women seeking a ‘masculine’ occupation whose performance status was neutral-unknown were perceived by women and men as least preferable heterosexual friends. Perceptions of men as heterosexual romantic partners and friends did not parallel responses to descriptions of women and were less consistent across sex of perceiver. Gender-incongruent persons were least preferred as same-sex friends.
- Subjects
FEAR of success; OCCUPATIONS; NONTRADITIONAL occupations; OCCUPATIONAL roles; OCCUPATIONAL segregation; VOCATIONAL guidance; HETEROSEXISM; MEN; WOMEN
- Publication
Sex Roles, 1990, Vol 23, Issue 1-2, p15
- ISSN
0360-0025
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00289875