60 high school girls indicated their acceptance or rejection of four job situations involving young people. Two of the jobs were appropriate for the sex of the employee, two were not. Subjects showed as much fear of success for the male employed in a “feminine” vocation as they did for the female employee in a “masculine” one. Composition of the subject's family bore little relationship to either acceptance or rejection of the job models.
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