Table 5.

Educational expectations (proportion in each educational category), by gender and group membership

	Less than BA	BA	More than BA	Don’t know
Full sample^a
Young men	0.31	0.32	0.27	0.11
Young women	0.22	0.31	0.38	0.09
Both sexes	0.26	0.31	0.32	0.10
Young men
Indifferent	0.34	0.32	0.22	0.12
Strivers^a	0.28	0.33	0.30	0.09
Careerists^a	0.35	0.29	0.21	0.15
Young women^b
Indifferent	0.28	0.33	0.27	0.13
Strivers	0.21	0.32	0.40	0.07
Careerists	0.23	0.28	0.37	0.11

N=14,817 respondents (7382 young men, 7435 young women) with non-missing data on at least one work or family values item and non-missing data for educational expectations.

^a:

gender differences in the distribution of expectations within latent class are significant, p<.05, based on chi-square tests.

^b:

latent class differences in the distribution of expectations within gender are significant, p<.05, based on chi-square tests.