This report provides information from a project that surveyed new and emerging, technical, and nontraditional occupations in Kentucky. The information is intended for use by those developing and conducting programs to serve displaced homemakers. First, a definition of new and emerging occupations in Kentucky is provided. Next, survey information…

Discusses problems relative to the study and promotion of nontraditional careers and offers suggestions for counseling and research. Problems stem from the meaning of nontraditional careers for those who engage in them, the delivery of counseling services for nontraditional careers, and the selection of variables for research. (JAC)

Investigated the influence of sex, sex-role orientation, family size, birth order, and locus of control as predictors of sextypical career choice in 113 college students who completed the Bem Sex Role Inventory and Rotter I-E Scale. Results showed biological sex was the most influential predictor, especially for males. (JAC)

Describes the choices, barriers, and experiences of women employed in and seeking employment in nontraditional occupations, based on a survey of 75 women. Results indicated the women held strong views of sex role equality, and named money and benefits as the most common reason for pursuing nontraditional careers. (JAC)

Study of female adolescents found: (1) significant value differences among those choosing traditional, moderately innovative, and innovative careers; (2) no significant differences on locus of control and one career maturity variable (career planning orientation); and (3) a significantly higher mean for moderate group compared to traditional group…

Explores marriages in which marriage and family life are organized around the wife's job or career rather than the husband's (N=46). Found three predictive social conditions: wives having traditionally male jobs, flexibility of husbands' jobs, and absence of children. Describes techniques of deviance neutralization used to minimize costs. (JAC)

Problems encountered by women conductors and composers in their struggles toward achievement and recognition are discussed. (RM)

Describes women's course-taking patterns and their resultant underrepresentation in skilled trades, technologies, and sciences. Considers the effects of value systems and conditioning on women's perceptions of work and success. Analyzes the lack of synchronization between traditional value systems and technological change in terms. Describes three…

Focuses on three specialized occupations--nurse, engineer, and lawyer--and looks at how people have transferred their specialized skills and knowledge from one field to another. Discusses options and obstacles when moving a career in the opposite direction. Offers 10 job-hunting mindsets to avoid. (JOW)

Tests a model of men's nontraditional occupational choice, using a longitudinal sample of college-age men in both gender traditional and nontraditional occupations. Liberal social attitudes, degree aspirations, and socio-economic status were directly predictive of nontraditional career choice. (Contains 35 references and 2 tables.) (GCP)

A study explored the growing-up years, professional preparation, and career experiences of 46 successful women in leadership positions in vocational education. Data on family, educational, and work histories of respondents were collected including comments about life experiences and suggestions for improving leadership opportunities for women.…

Investigated factors influencing job satisfaction of 217 women working in 51 nontraditional occupations. Explored the occupational unique experiences confronted by women in nontraditional occupations. Identified job location, job awareness and changes, work and family roles, income and earnings, and preparation for a job as important…

Compared congruency between types of noncollege-degreed employed women's (N=171) actual occupational choices and their cognitive occupational preferences to congruency between types of personality and choices. Results indicated that, although association between types of cognitive occupational preference and actual occupational choice was superior…

Data from the Washington State Career Development Study showed that many women go between sex-typical and sex-atypical occupations. Higher work commitment slows movement from nontraditional to traditional occupations, but family variables do not constrain moves to nontraditional jobs nor speed moves to traditional ones. (SK)

Holland's Self-Directed Search, a lifestyle questionnaire, and Bem Sex Role Inventory were completed by 63 gay and 60 heterosexual males. Gay men's career interests were less Realistic or Investigative and more Artistic/Social on Holland's scale; their aspirations were less traditional than heterosexuals'. Bem Femininity and Masculinity scores…