The Gendered Selection of Activities and the Reproduction of Gender Segregation in the Labor Force

SES 0000201PI：塞西莉亚·L·里奇韦，雪莉·J·科雷尔这个项目结合了实验和调查方法，对女性和男性如何占据不同的职业职位进行了新的分析。理论基础运用身份特征理论的观点来解释女性和男性对自己的能力(在特定条件下)以及随后的职业抱负的不同概念。这一理论的预测将在一个小团体实验室中得到验证。这项研究的第二部分检查了全国高中生教育纵向研究的调查数据，以寻找与实验研究发现的相同过程的证据。结果对于扩展微观社会学中已建立的理论，以及展示所开发的理论原理在现实世界中的一些应用都将是重要的。

AbstractSES 0000201PI: Cecilia L Ridgeway, Shelley J Correll This project combines experimental and survey methods to assess a new analysis of how women and men come to occupy different occupational positions. The theoretical foundation uses ideas from status characteristics theory to explain women's and men's different conceptions of their competence (under specified conditions), and subsequent occupational aspiration. Predictions from this theory will be tested in a small groups laboratory. The second part of the study examines survey data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of high school students for evidence of the same processes as the experimental research finds. Results will be important for extending an established theory in micro-sociology, as well as for showing some real-world applications of the theoretical principles developed.