Only fifty-eight of the 800 girls expressed a wish to pursue a vocation along the lines of their favorite pastimes, concentrated in music, art, athletics, and sewing¶
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q2 i? In only fifty-eight cases did girls wish to take up a profession along the lines of their favorite pastimes, mainly in music, art, athletics, and sewing, mostly among girls aged twelve to sixteen. → Wheeler 1920
Evidence¶
Wheeler 1920¶
Wheeler, T. (1920). A Study of Certain Recreational Reading and Vocational Phases in the Lives of Young Girls. The Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. XI, No. 9. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0064614
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Cross-tabulation of recreational and vocational responses within the 800-girl interview survey. Recreation-vocation alignment appeared in "only fifty-eight cases, all told", limited mainly to music, art, athletics, and sewing, with over half of these girls aged thirteen to fourteen. No effect size is reported.
"In only fifty-eight cases, all told, did the girls express the wish to take up a profession along the lines in which their favorite pastimes lay, and the fields were markedly limited in which this correlation was noted"
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Related Claims¶
- Among 800 girls aged six to twenty interviewed in 1917-18, active games and sports constituted at least half of recreational preferences across the entire age range — related
- Fairy tales dominated the reading choices of girls aged six to eight but dwindled sharply with age, while girls' series books peaked between eleven and sixteen — related
- Girls' vocational choices showed a striking narrowness of outlook, with teaching, nursing, and stenography filling nearly the whole horizon and possibilities diminishing with age — related
- In twenty-five of thirty-four cases where girls mentioned parents regarding occupation, the parents' wishes differed decidedly from the girls' own — related
- Reading as a pastime peaked at about one-fifth of preferences among thirteen-to-fourteen-year-old girls — related
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Only fifty-eight of the 800 girls expressed a wish to pursue a vocation along the lines of their favorite pastimes, concentrated in music, art, athletics, and sewing |
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Only fifty-eight of the 800 girls expressed a wish to pursue a vocation along the lines of their favorite pastimes, concentrated in music, art, athletics, and sewing |
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