Gendered paths: Educational and occupational expectations and outcomes among adult children of immigrants
- 1 November 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Ethnic and Racial Studies
- Vol. 28 (6), 1087-1118
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870500224406
Abstract
This article examines young adults’ educational and occupational trajectories over a ten-year period using panel data from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study in California. While many of the young men and women in the study are on straightforward paths to socio-economic success, others are falling well short of their goals and imagined futures. Males begin with lower educational and occupational expectations than females in junior high school, and are also less likely to translate high expectations into realities in early adulthood. While some occupational choices remain traditionally gendered, females are more likely than males to aspire to and to attain the highest status occupations, even those that are male-dominated. Early educational expectations are important predictors of subsequent success for both males and females. But determinants of outcomes differ significantly for men and women, showing how paths are segmented not only by class and ethnicity, but also by gender.This publication has 43 references indexed in Scilit:
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