Do Gender Role Attitudes Affect Aspirations of Female High-school Students ? :

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  • 性役割意識はアスピレーションに影響するか？
  • 性役割意識はアスピレーションに影響するか?--高校生女子のアスピレーションの規定因に関する計量的研究
  • セイ ヤクワリ イシキ ワ アスピレーション ニ エイキョウ スル カ コウコウセイ ジョシ ノ アスピレーション ノ キテイイン ニ カンスル ケイリョウテキ ケンキュウ
  • ―高校生女子のアスピレーションの規定因に関する計量的研究―
  • A Quantitative Study on Determinants of Aspirations of Female High-school Student

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     Previous studies on women's educational aspiration, occupational aspiration, and life course expectation have argued that internalization of gender roles in women shapes their aspirations. However, they are based on poor operational model building and inadequate statistical methods, so we cannot rely on their argument. In this paper, we make their problems clear and propose alternative multinomial logit models to analyze determinants of aspirations of female high school students. By analyzing a data set of female high school students with the models, we get the following findings. First, educational aspiration is affected only by their school ranks and family backgrounds; gender role attitudes have no effect on it. Although the previous studies argue that they have found the correlation between gender role attitudes and educational aspiration, our finding suggests that such a correlation is spurious. Second, gender role attitudes, however, have a significant effect upon life course expectation. These two findings suggest that the theoretical models that argue internalization of gender roles in women shapes their aspirations are too simple to study determinants of aspirations of women rigorously and that we need to develop more fine-tuned theories.

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