Career Plans and Military Propensity of Young Women: Interviews with 1997 Youth Attitude Tracking Study Respondents

摘要

The Youth Attitude Tracking Study (YATS) began in 1975 and annually surveys 10,000 men and women aged 16-24. YATS collects opinions, attitudes and beliefs of American youth on a wide variety of subjects of interest to military recruiting. For the interviews of women, 45-minute semi-structured interviews were conducted with YATS respondents who were and were not interested in joining the military. The interviews allow opportunities to study the career decision- making, family plans, and social ties of young women in several clusters: Joiners, Shifters, Fence-Sitters and Non-Joiners. The groups were also asked to discuss their perceptions of sexual harassment.