The Consideration of Race in Efforts to End Sex Bias [electronic resource] / Janice Porter Gump and L. Wendell Rivers.
The paper examines the need for sex fairness efforts for minority women (particularly black women), and relates those needs to the measurement of vocational interests. Much data is presented portraying the black woman as more likely to enter the labor force, more interested in doing so, more likely...
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | The paper examines the need for sex fairness efforts for minority women (particularly black women), and relates those needs to the measurement of vocational interests. Much data is presented portraying the black woman as more likely to enter the labor force, more interested in doing so, more likely to work full time and continuously, and more necessary to the financial welfare of her family than her white counterpart. It is equally true that black women choose occupations traditional for women, are motivated perhaps more by a sense of responsibility than by achievement need, are much more traditional in their sex-role attitudes; thus, concern for the occupational options of white women can be no less directed towards them than towards any other women. An examination is presented of some of the technical aspects of the problem of preparing assessment instruments for minority group examinees in order to emphasize the need for further work in this area. The basic contention is that there may be a discontinuity or mis-match between the interest structures developed from the background of minority females and those possessed by the criterion groups used to validate an interest scale. (Author/AJ) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED095364. Sponsoring Agency: National Inst. of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. Contract Number: OEC-0-72-5240. ERIC Note: For related documents, see CE 001 926-935; Draft. |
| Physical Description: | 51 p. |