Men and things, women and people: A meta-analysis of sex differences in interests.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Iowa State University
Abstract
The magnitude and variability of sex differences in vocational interests were examined in the present meta-analysis for Holland's (1959, 1997) categories (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional), Prediger's (1982) Things-People and Data-Ideas dimensions, and the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) interest areas. Technical manuals for 47 interest inventories were used, yielding 503,188 respondents. Results showed that men prefer working with things and women prefer working with people, producing a large effect size (d = 0.93) on the Things-People dimension. Men showed stronger Realistic (d = 0.84) and Investigative (d = 0.26) interests, and women showed…
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- Psychology
- Reputation
- Vocational education
- Dimension (graph theory)
- Social psychology
- Quality (philosophy)
- Meta-analysis
- Demography
- Quality Education