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Effects of gender and gender role orientation on high school students' teaching perceptions and aspirations in Hong Kong
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Ku, Wai Shan Watt, Helen M. G. |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Abstract | Teaching is a female-dominated career in both Western and Eastern societies. While low salary and social status have been suggested by previous research as the main reasons, these cannot explain the phenomenon in Hong Kong where teachers enjoy high social status and salary. My Master of Psychology research will include samples of Hong Kong and Australian senior high school students, to contrast their gender stereotypes as measured by Bem’s Sex-Role Inventory (Bem, 1981), and how these, along with their gender and gender role orientations, affect their views of what characterises a good primary and secondary teacher, likelihood to consider teaching as a career, self-efficacy, and interests in |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.aare.edu.au/data/publications/2009/ku09045.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
