Discusses recent perspectives on gender differences in life and career planning, focusing on gendered context of women's and men's lives. Notes that men and women develop different orientations regarding occupational achievement and interpersonal relationships that interact with broader sociocultural norms for sexes' behavior to produce different…

Job satisfaction, which can be defined as a feeling of fulfillment or pleasure associated with one's work, comes from many personal sources but can be nourished by supportive agency practices, daily interactions, and long-term goals. Job satisfaction is important for child and youth care workers because (1) job satisfaction and competence are…

This instructional guide on the economic and societal factors of career investigation contains nine units dealing with: job acquisition, on-the-job relations, communications, understanding the paycheck, personal money management, completing government-regulated work requirements, laws affecting workers, changing jobs, and free enterprise. Each…