Abstract
This is a study of a random sample (n=232) of freshmen entering an eastern private women's college in fall 1979. Replicating research instruments used in some past and recent studies, the study presents comparative data on the extent of career salience. The changes in lifestyle preferences are especially striking since the 1943 survey done at the college, which is also the site of the current study. The theoretical focus of this article, however, centers less on the extent of career salience, significant as it is, than on its correlates. The study reports on the degree of ideological consistency among career salience, perception of psychological sex differences, attitudes towards sex roles, ideals of femininity and masculinity, and some other components of gender orientation. Apart from the issue of ideological consistency, the study investigates a number of social and psychological background factors which may have contributed to the professed career commitment of some students and its absence in others.
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