Gender Differences in Career Aspirations of Academically Talented Students: A Five Year Longitudinal Study of High School Valedictorians and Salutatorians
The five year longitudinal valedictorian study examines the lives of 46 women and 34 men who were graduated at or near the top of their Illinois high school classes of 1981. Study members participated through annual interview and self-administered questionnaires. The academically talented students continued to achieve highly in college academics. In college, women, but not men, lowered their self-estimates of their intelligence and began modifying their career plans to accommodate expected future marriage and parenting responsibilities.
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