ASSIGNMENT 2 Yek Lang Yieng

ARTICLE REVIEW

Career Aspirations of Women in the 20^th Century

Dr Amirmudin

Yek Lang Yieng

MP111129

The topic of this article is Career Aspirations of Women in the 20^th Century with written by Domenico, D, M. and Jones, K. H. in the article Journal of Career and Technical Education (2007). This article focusing on the review of women participation in the workforce and the progress of women’s career development. The authors also highlighted the career aspirations in the latter half of the 20^th century.

In the article had summarized the issues of Women involved in the workforce after World War II. Authors also give review of what are the effects of affect women involvement in career. Besides that, authors also give brief discussion on what reason women professional status lower than man and more difficult to achieve professional status than man. Authors also have given barriers to Women’s Workforce participation in career and also factor-factor which influencing women’s career aspirations.

The article tells us that the problem facing by women if they are working. Women will be damned and view as immoral and unfeminine as well as being not responsible mothers. Women also facing challenges due to their roles as worker, wife and mothers. Therefore, women are more difficult to achieve professional status than men. The authors also given evidence women still perceive lower income than me (Graham and Smith, 2005).

Therefore, factors influenced their career choices included social and families influences, lack of awareness of nontraditional options, unwelcoming environment where domain by male, discrimination with career fields, high turnover rates and less seniority. These are factors contributed to earning gaps between man and women (Stephenson & Burge, 1997).

After the detailed of background review, authors had given barriers that influenced women’s workforce participation. The barriers are role conflict which women need to become heads of household in their single parent family and sex discrimination as well as sex-typing. Besides that, others effect the women fail to succeed are inadequate occupational skills, poor achievement, lack of transportation and issues of childcare.

Besides that, the article also highlighted about factors those influencing women’s career aspirations. Career aspirations influence by gender, occupational status and educational level of parents, women’s education gains in the workplace, race, and socioeconomic status (Domenico, and Jones, 2007).

I am agreeing with what authors write but too short. Authors should also need to give strategies or ways to overcome the problem facing by women. Besides that, authors also need to give clarification about the career aspirations in this article so that others people are more understand about the topic written. In order to improve women participation in workforce, women before that need to have proper training in technical and vocational education. So that, they have related skill needed by industry. In the same time, it also can improve women status of low income or culture perspective towards women.  

In this article, most of the factors given is about culture, family, society influence than the problem of their women in educations. They do not have qualified certification in technical and vocational training. Therefore, they only able to work for low pay income job rather than others higher job required skills.

In conclusion, this article presents interesting findings from the authors own suggestion to do more research on this which can know further factors influence women aspirations and increase number of  participation in workforce. I would agree with the authors when authors stated that need to study female adolescents in the early stages of career development. It is because we need to start from technical and vocational education and training to encounter the problem facing after women are enter career decision process. The article has therefore contributed valuable information and understanding of the problem facing by in workplace and factors influence their career. 

References

Domenico, D. M., & Jones, H. K. (2007). Career Aspirations of Women in the 20th  Century. Journal of Career and Technical Education, Vol. 22, No. 2. 18-25.

Graham, J. W., & Smith, S. A. (2005). Gender Differences in Emplyment and earning in Science and Engineering in the U.S. Economics of Education Review, 24, 341-354.

Stephenson, M. B., & Burge, P. L. (1997). Eliciting Women’s Voices: Vocational Choice and Educational Climate for Women In Nontraditional Occupational Programs. Journal of Vocational Education Research, 22, 153-171.