Fifty Years of Fashion and Feminism: Early Career Recognition, Community Involvementand Sociopolitical Identities in a Sample of NationallyRecognized Women

摘要

honored for college contributions were examined between 1 and 50 yearspost award to determine their personality and social clock projects, examine thedegree to which the women remained politically and civically involved over theirlater adulthood; and to understand the impact early achievement may have had onfeminist attitudes. Utilizing a series of personality, political ideology, feministattitude and generative concern and action scales along with life history data,women's feminine social clock projects were compared with personality variablesand descriptively compared with earlier published reports on mid century women'ssocial clock projects (Helson et al. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology46:1079-1096,1984). With the exception of 1970 era winners, women's social clockprojects across multiple eras remain consistent with earlier findings. Regressionanalyses indicate political ideology predicts feminist attitudes and politicalbehaviors, whereas identity achievement personality variables predict generativeconcern.