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Article: Curricular track, career choice, and androgyny among adolescent females.
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- Adolescence
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- March 22, 1997
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There has been a dramatic increase in the amount of literature on how career decisions are made and implemented over the past few years. Many researchers have acknowledged that this process differs for women and men and have articulated theories and models to try and explain how the career development of women is distinctive and why it is more complex than that of men (Betz & Fitzgerald, 1987; O'Brien & Fassinger, 1993).
Research has indicated that the main variables affecting women's choices of a nontraditional career generally defined in terms of career prestige or science-relatedness, include academic ability, particularly coursework in math and science (Wise, ...