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Career theory for women and minority ethnic group references

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  • Astin, H.S. (1984) The Meaning of Work in Women's Lives: a sociopsychological model of career choice and work behaviour in The Counseling Psychologist, 12, 4, p117-126.
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  • Betz, N. E. (2002). "Explicating an Ecological Approach to the Career Development of Women." Career Development Quarterly 50(4): 335-338.
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  • Betz, N.E. & Hackett, G. (1981) The Relationship of Career-Related Self-Efficacy Expectations to Perceived Career Options in College Women and Men in Journal of Counseling Psychology, 28, 5, p399-410.
  • Betz, N.E. & Hackett, G. (1997) Applications of Self-Efficacy Theory to the Career Assessment of Women in Journal of Career Assessment, 5 (4) p383-402.
  • Betz, N.E. (1994) Basic Issues and Concepts in Career Counseling for Women, in Wash, W.B. & Osipow, S.H. (1994) (ed) Career Counselling for Women Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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  • Crawford, K. and D. Smith (2005). "The We and the Us: Mentoring African American Women." Journal of Black Studies 36(1): 52-67.
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  • Dellana, S. A. and D. Snyder (2004). "Student Future Outlook and Counseling Quality in a Rural Minority High School." The High School Journal 88(1): 27-41.
  • Farmer, H.S. & Associates (1997a) Diversity & Women's Career Development, Thousand Oaks, California: Sage.
  • Farmer, H.S. (1985) Model of Career and Achievement Motivation for Women and Men in Journal of Counseling Psychology, 32, 3, p363-390.
  • Farmer, H.S. (1997) Women's motivation related to mastery, career salience, and career aspiration: a multivariate model focusing on the effects of sex role socialization in Journal of Career Assessment, 5, p355-381.
  • Feyerherm, A. and Y. H. Vick (2005). "Generation X women in high technology: Overcoming gender and generational challenges to succeed in the corporate environment." Career Development International 10(3): 216-227.
  • Fitzgerald, L.F, Fassinger, R.E. & Betz, N.E. (1995) Theoretical Advances in the Study of Women's Career Development in Walsh, W.B. & Osipow, S.H. (eds) (2nd edition) Handbook of Vocational Psychology: theory, research and practice, Mahway, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Fitzgerald, L.F. & Betz, N.E. (1994) Career Development in Cultural Context: the role of gender, race, class, and sexual orientation in Savickas, M.L. & Lent, W. (eds) Convergence in Career Development Theories: implications for science and practice, Palo Alto, California:CPP Books.
  • Flores, L. Y., Berkel, L.A., Nilsson, J.E., Ojeda, L., Jordan, S.E., Ginger L.L. and L.Veronica M.(2006). "Racial/Ethnic Minority Vocational Research: A Content and Trend Analysis Across 36 Years." Career Development Quarterly 55: 2-21.
  • Fouad, N.A. & Bingham, R.P. (1995) Career counseling with racial and ethnic minorities in Walsh, W.B. & Osipow, S.H. (eds) Handbook of Vocational Psychology: theory, research and practice, Mahway, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Gottfredson, L.S. (1981) Circumscription and Compromise: A Development Theory of Occupational Aspirations, in Journal of Counseling Psychology Monograph, 28, 545-579
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  • Gottfredson, L.S. (1996) Gottfredson's Theory of Circumscription and Compromise in Brown, D. & Brooks, L. & Associates, (eds) (3rd edition) Career, Choice and Development, San Francisco, California, Jossey Bass.
  • Gottfredson, L.S. and Lapan, R.T. (1997) Assessing gender-based circumscription of occupational aspirations, Journal of Career Assessment, 5, 419-441.
  • Grunow, D., Hofmeister, H. and S. Buchholz (2006). "Late 20th-Century Persistence and Decline of the Female Homemaker in Germany and the United States." International Sociology 21(1): 101-131.
  • Gushue, G. V. and M. L. Whitson (2006). "The relationship of ethnic identity and gender role attitudes to the development of career choice goals among black and Latina girls." Journal of Counseling Psychology 53(3): 379-385.
  • Hackett, G. & Betz, G. (1981) A self-efficacy approach to the career development of women in Journal of Vocational Behaviour, 18, p326-339.
  • Herzig, A. H. (2004). "Becoming Mathematicians: Women and Students of Color Choosing and Leaving Doctoral Mathematics." Review of Educational Research 74(2): 171-214.
  • Kerr, B. and S. E. Robinson Kurpius (2004). "Encouraging talented girls in math and science: effects of a guidance intervention." High Ability Studies 15: 85-102.
  • Luzzo, D. A. and E. H. McWhirter (2001). "Sex and Ethnic Differences in the Perception of Educational and Career-Related Barriers and Levels of Coping Eficacy." Journal of Counseling & Development 79: 61.
  • Lyness, K. S. and D. E. Thompson (2000). "Climbing the Corporate Ladder: Do Female and Male Executives Follow the Same Route?" Journal of Applied Psychology 85(1): 86-101.
  • Osipow, S. H. & Littlejohn, E.M. (1995) `Toward a Multicultural Theory of Career Development: Prospects and Dilemmas', in Leong, F. Career Development & Vocational Behaviour of Racial and Ethnic Minorities, Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Phillips, S.D. & Imhoff, A.R. (1997) Women and Career Development: a Decade of Research, in Spence, J.T., Darley, J.M. & Foss, D.J. (Eds) Annual Review of Psychology, 48, pp31-59
  • Quimby, J. L. and K. M. O'Brien (2004). "Predictors of Student and Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Among Nontraditional College Women." Career Development Quarterly 52: 323-339.
  • Shiner, M. and T. Modood (2002). "Help or Hindrance? Higher Education and the Route to Ethnic Equality." British Journal of Sociology of Education 23(2): 209-232.
  • Sue, D.W. (1990) Counselling the Culturally Different: Theory and Practice, New York, John Wiley and Sons
  • Sue, D.W., Arredondo, P., & McDavis, R.J. (1995) Multicultural Counseling Competencies and Standards: a call to the profession, in Handbook of Multicultural Counseling, Ponterotto, J.G., Casas, J.M., Suzuki, L.A. and Alexander, C. M., Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications.
  • Sullivan, K. R. and J. R. Mahalik (2000). "Increasing Career Self-Efficacy for Women: Evaluating a Group Intervention." Journal of Counseling & Development 78: 54-62.
  • Valcour, M. and J. J. Ladge (2008). "Family and career path characteristics as predictors of women's objective and subjective career success: Integrating traditional and protean career explanations." Journal of Vocational Behavior 73(2): 300-309.
  • Yanar, B., Marie-Hélène, B. and G.P. Latham (2009). "The effect of verbal self-guidance training for overcoming employment barriers." Applied Psychology 58(4): 586-601.