Theses and Dissertations from UMD

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    Is Feminist Identity Beneficial for Women's Career Aspirations? Examining Feminist Identity Profiles
    (2020) Lee, Jaeeun; Wessel, Jennifer; Psychology; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    Sexism harms women’s career aspirations by emphasizing domestic responsibilities over career competence. Having a feminist identity, however, has been shown to buffer against certain negative effects linked to sexism. The present study uses a person-centered approach to identify profiles of feminist identity based on feminist attitudes, private feminist identification, and public feminist identification and examines how the identified profiles are differentially associated with career aspirations, anticipated family-interference-with-work, and willingness to compromise career for family among women. Three profiles of feminist identity (egalitarian, private feminist, public feminist) emerged from responses from 282 female undergraduate and graduate students (Mage = 20.47). Results showed that public feminists and private feminists were less willing to compromise career for family than women who reject the feminist label despite holding feminist attitudes (i.e., egalitarians). Moreover, public feminists reported higher career aspirations than both private feminists and egalitarians. Limitations and implications of these findings are discussed.
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    Exploring the Influence of Family-of-Origin on the Career Aspirations of High Ability Adolescent Women
    (2006-04-28) Downing, Vanessa Lynn; Fassinger, Ruth; Counseling and Personnel Services; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    The current study sought to understand how girls' perceptions of their parents' gender role attitudes and the career aspirations parents have for their daughters influence girls' career aspirations and planfulness in regard to multiple roles. A non-experimental field survey explored how variables of interest related to each other in a sample 161 female junior and senior students attending an urban, single-sex, public high school populated primarily college-bound women. Cluster analyses revealed three groupings of girls with varying levels of career aspiration and planfulness for future multiple roles depending on their perceptions of themselves as achievers, their perceptions of their parents' career aspirations. Findings also included significant relationships between parents' and daughters' attitudes in regard to vocational and relational gender roles, and in regard to agreement between their levels of career aspiration for the daughters. Implications of the study and suggestions for future research building upon the findings are discussed.