Curricular track, career choice, and androgyny among adolescent females

This study investigated psychological androgyny among 40 high school girls from a college preparatory upper-level mathematics class and from a vocational track cosmetology class. It was hypothesized that the choice of curricular track would correspond to traditional sex-role stereotypes and that there would be a significant difference between the two groups in terms of feminine orientation. Neither hypothesis was supported. The cosmetology group was significantly more androgynous than was the upper-level mathematics group. The results are discussed in terms of implications for the prevailing perspective that career choices are linked to traditional sex-role stereotypes.