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Gender Egalitarianism and Career Expectations
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- Title: Gender Egalitarianism and Career Expectations: Comparing China, France, Germany, Mexico, Russia, and Turkey
- Author(s): Veronique Goehlich, Kirsten Wuest, Sabine Palm
- Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
- Collection: Common Ground Research Networks
- Series: Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations
- Journal Title: The International Journal of Organizational Diversity
- Keywords: Gender Egalitarianism, Intercultural Dimensions, Career Expectation, Globalization, Accessibility and Accommodation
- Volume: 15
- Issue: 2
- Date: April 17, 2015
- ISSN: 2328-6261 (Print)
- ISSN: 2328-6229 (Online)
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18848/2328-6261/CGP/v15i02/58059
- Citation: Goehlich, Veronique, Kirsten Wuest, and Sabine Palm. 2015. "Gender Egalitarianism and Career Expectations: Comparing China, France, Germany, Mexico, Russia, and Turkey." The International Journal of Organizational Diversity 15 (2): 1-12. doi:10.18848/2328-6261/CGP/v15i02/58059.
- Extent: 12 pages
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Abstract
Gender egalitarianism is a subject of growing importance. In January 2012, we conducted a survey with a sample of 193 students of economics from China, France, Germany, Mexico, Russia, and Turkey. The focus of this study was to investigate how nationality and gender influence students' career expectations. A further aim was to examine whether the results correlate with Hofstede’s masculinity/femininity dimension and with the two GLOBE study sub-dimensions of gender egalitarianism regarding “society values” and “society practice.” We found that our results did not correlate with Hofstede's except for one country (China). The correlation with the sub-dimensions of the GLOBE study was, with one exception (Russia), much higher, which indicates that the masculinity/femininity dimension articulated by Hofstede needs to be questioned.
