Careers, marriage, identity, and feminism : women's life choices in the seventies. 1975.

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Weissberg, Charlotte. Careers, marriage, identity, and feminism : women's life choices in the seventies.

Careers, marriage, identity, and feminism : women's life choices in the seventies. 1975.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26643629

This study examined the personalities of a group of college women and their interactions with social institutions. The focus was on the relationship between the changes in values and ideas brought about by the women's movement and the personal development of young women. Two issues were found to be of consistent and primary concern to all the participants. The first had to do with feelings of ease about being a woman, sexually and socially, and with general attitudes about womanhood. The second revolved around career decision making and commitment to work. Participants were 27 seniors at Brandeis University selected in 1975 from the population of white senior women who were not receiving financial aid from the university. A range of academic concentrations were represented in the sample. An initial questionnaire sought information about the women's backgrounds. This was followed by an intensive clinical interview that was tape recorded and lasted between four and six hours. The questions were primarily open-ended and covered a wide range of issues about the participant's family, growing-up years, college life, personal relationships, and future plans. A follow-up questionnaire was sent to the participants in 1977. The Murray Center holds copies of the completed questionnaires, transcripts of the taped interviews, and the interviewer's notes for each participant.

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Harvard University, Murray Research Center