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This article focuses on women’s entry into male-dominated occupations in the United States. It looks at the impact of Title IX and related legislation which opened access to colleges and universities to women and examines the effects of initial or pre-enrollment student characteristics, organizational attributes of the college of university, student performance and experiences in higher education and the attributes of employing organizations on women’s entry into male-dominated occupations. The article concludes with a model for measuring the relative influence of each.
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Ethington, C.A., Smart, J.C., Pascarella, E.T. (1991). Influences on women’s entry into male-dominated occupations. In: Kelly, G.P., Slaughter, S. (eds) Women’s Higher Education in Comparative Perspective. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3816-1_13
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