An Exploratory Study of Female Creative Workers' Vocational Development

Abstract

Female creative performance is not so significant as male creative performance due to the knowledgeable inequality, which has been led by men for a relatively long period. Generally, ”Creative class” refers to a group of workers, such as artists and scientists, outputting creative products (Florida, 2005). Among the above creative works, artist certainly qualifies as the most creative one (Runco, 2007), since they need to incubate of affection and thoughts, and manipulate skills to express. In the light of the vocational psychology, the fitness between an individual (interests, abilities, and values) and environment (working style, interpersonal relationship, payment, and promotion opportunities) is important. Csikszentmihalyi (1996) also considered creativity a production within the interaction between individual, domain and field. Take art workers as an example, women's creativity has been rejected due to intellectual's discrimination, so that most of these females are unknown. Also, gender discrimination in the art world makes female artists get appropriate training, social support and financial aid under a difficult state. The rare resources have caused ambitious female artists may to lose their identifications easily (Brooks & Daniluk, 1998), or return to the traditional gender stereotypes with higher society recognition. Finally, we anticipate this study results will contribute to the education of creativity in the basis of sexual equality, and expel the common prejudice of female art worker.