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Article: Integrating barriers to Caucasian lesbians' career development and Super's life-span, life-space approach.(D.E. Super)
- Article from:
- Career Development Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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Researchers and practitioners do not fully understand the nature and extent of actual and perceived barriers in lesbians' career development (S. L. Morrow, P. A. Gore, & B. W. Campbell, 1996). In this study, 10 lesbian women, ages 42 to 64 years, were interviewed and asked to identify barriers to career development due to sexual identity. Integration of sexual orientation in D. E. Super's (1990) Life-Span, Life-Space approach is proposed.
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Super (1990) defined career development as a dynamic, longitudinal, and developmental process essentially consisting of developing and implementing the self-concept. He developed a collection of theories ...