Table 6.

Expected occupation at age 30 (proportion in each occupational category), by gender and group membership

	Low	Medium	Professional	Advanced professional	Don’t know
Full sample^a
Young men	0.17	0.17	0.24	0.09	0.33
Young women	0.12	0.16	0.26	0.18	0.28
Both sexes	0.15	0.16	0.25	0.14	0.30
Young men^b
Indifferent	0.11	0.15	0.22	0.06	0.46
Strivers^a	0.18	0.17	0.25	0.10	0.30
Careerists^a	0.19	0.17	0.22	0.09	0.33
Young women^b
Indifferent	0.11	0.14	0.23	0.10	0.43
Strivers	0.13	0.17	0.27	0.18	0.25
Careerists	0.13	0.14	0.27	0.20	0.27

Low: service, laborer, operative. Medium: clerical, sales, technical. N=14,482 respondents (7172 young men, 7310 young women) with non-missing data on at least one work or family values item and non-missing data for career expectations, excluding respondents who expected to be in the military, homemakers, or out of the labor force.

^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.