Attitudes toward Women's Professional Achievement among Social Work Students and Recent Graduates

Abstract

An exploratory-descriptive design was employed to ascertain the relationship between demographic variables and attitudes toward women's professional achievement among 343 students in a master's degree social work program and alumni from two classes. Data were collected by means of a mailed questionnaire containing fixed-alternative questions. The attitudinal vignette did not elicit significant differences between male and female attitudes; however, findings did indicate that females had lower salary expectations than males. Also, respondents whose major concentration was in community organization had higher salary expectations than did those in other major concentrations.

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Kathleen Betts Rushford

KATHLEEN BETTS RUSHFORD, ANNE O'TOOLE, DEBORAH PARKHURST URBELIS, ANNE VOSS PEARLSTEIN, MARCIE PITT-CATSOUPHES, GAIL STONE, and CHARLENE ARKWAY are all employed in human services organizations. NANCY W. VEEDER is an associate professor at the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work.

Anne O'toole

KATHLEEN BETTS RUSHFORD, ANNE O'TOOLE, DEBORAH PARKHURST URBELIS, ANNE VOSS PEARLSTEIN, MARCIE PITT-CATSOUPHES, GAIL STONE, and CHARLENE ARKWAY are all employed in human services organizations. NANCY W. VEEDER is an associate professor at the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work.

Deborah Parkhurst Urbelis

KATHLEEN BETTS RUSHFORD, ANNE O'TOOLE, DEBORAH PARKHURST URBELIS, ANNE VOSS PEARLSTEIN, MARCIE PITT-CATSOUPHES, GAIL STONE, and CHARLENE ARKWAY are all employed in human services organizations. NANCY W. VEEDER is an associate professor at the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work.

Anne Voss Pearlstein

KATHLEEN BETTS RUSHFORD, ANNE O'TOOLE, DEBORAH PARKHURST URBELIS, ANNE VOSS PEARLSTEIN, MARCIE PITT-CATSOUPHES, GAIL STONE, and CHARLENE ARKWAY are all employed in human services organizations. NANCY W. VEEDER is an associate professor at the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work.

Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes

KATHLEEN BETTS RUSHFORD, ANNE O'TOOLE, DEBORAH PARKHURST URBELIS, ANNE VOSS PEARLSTEIN, MARCIE PITT-CATSOUPHES, GAIL STONE, and CHARLENE ARKWAY are all employed in human services organizations. NANCY W. VEEDER is an associate professor at the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work.

Gail Stone

KATHLEEN BETTS RUSHFORD, ANNE O'TOOLE, DEBORAH PARKHURST URBELIS, ANNE VOSS PEARLSTEIN, MARCIE PITT-CATSOUPHES, GAIL STONE, and CHARLENE ARKWAY are all employed in human services organizations. NANCY W. VEEDER is an associate professor at the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work.

Charlene Arkway

KATHLEEN BETTS RUSHFORD, ANNE O'TOOLE, DEBORAH PARKHURST URBELIS, ANNE VOSS PEARLSTEIN, MARCIE PITT-CATSOUPHES, GAIL STONE, and CHARLENE ARKWAY are all employed in human services organizations. NANCY W. VEEDER is an associate professor at the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work.

Nancy W. Veeder

KATHLEEN BETTS RUSHFORD, ANNE O'TOOLE, DEBORAH PARKHURST URBELIS, ANNE VOSS PEARLSTEIN, MARCIE PITT-CATSOUPHES, GAIL STONE, and CHARLENE ARKWAY are all employed in human services organizations. NANCY W. VEEDER is an associate professor at the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work.