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Author Poole, Millicent.

Title Australian women and careers : psychological and contextual influences over the life course / Millicent E. Poole and Janice Langan-Fox
Published Cambridge ; Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 1997

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Description xvi, 294 pages ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Changing Perspectives on Work and Careers -- 2. Towards a Theory of Careers for Men and Women -- 3. The Career Development Project: Careers in a Transitional Context -- 4. Precursors To Career Orientation and Success -- 5. Career Plans, Motivations and Achievement -- 6. Attaining Professional Careers -- 7. Women and Success: Subjective and Objective Perceptions -- 8. Orientations in Women's Lives: Ambivalence and Conflict -- 9. Determining Career Orientations In Women -- 10. Career Dilemmas: Conflict In the Home-Work Nexus -- 11. Lifestyle Satisfaction -- 12. Contextualist Frameworks of Careers, The Career Development Project, and Changing Scenarios -- App. 1. Classification of Occupations using the Career Development Project data, 1973-82 -- App. 2. Details of Results for Assessed Model of 'Professional Attainment' (shown in Figure 6.2) -- App. 3. Details of Results for Assessed Model of 'Objective/Subjective Criteria of Success' (shown in Figure 7.2)
Analysis Employment participation rates
Family
Lifestyle
Professions
Sex discrimination
Statistics
Women
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography
Subject Career development -- Australia -- Longitudinal studies.
Women -- Employment -- Australia -- Longitudinal studies.
Sex discrimination in employment -- Australia.
Women -- Employment -- Australia.
Work and family -- Australia -- Longitudinal studies.
Work and family -- Australia.
Author Langan-Fox, Janice, 1946-
Poole, Millicent.
LC no. 96032047
ISBN 0521561450 (hbk.)
0521567572 (paperback)