The chalkboard ceiling: Comparisons of demographics, gender and work values of graduate education and school administration students.

摘要

he purposes of this study were to determine whether: (1) male and female graduate education students differ on specific work values; (2) male and female graduate education students with different career orientations (administration and non-administration) differ on specific work values; and, (3) females in graduate educational administration exhibit a higher incidence of sports participation than females in non-administration graduate education. Additionally, a demographic profile of women who desire to become educational administrators was produced. Demographic comparisons were also made for four groups: male graduate administration students, female graduate administration students, male graduate non-administration students, and female graduate non-administration students.;Subjects were surveyed at two urban universities. There were 63 administration students and 61 non-administration students. The number of subjects in the categories were: 19 male administration students, 44 female administration students, 6 male non-administration students, and 55 female non-administration students. The number of males is low, making comparisons difficu unfortunately, this is the nature of the field of graduate education. Based on this population, a multiple regression/correlation analyses found no significant differences among males and females using Donald Super's Work Values Inventory which assesses fifteen work value areas. In the comparison of work values between career orientation, twelve of the work value areas showed no differences. However, significant differences were found in three work value areas. These were: MANAGEMENT (F = 11.475; p ;The last question was whether female administration students exhibit a higher incidence of past sports participation than female non-administration students. Although higher percentages were found for female administration students (80%) than female non-administration students (69%), this difference was not found to be significant at the p