Abstract
The main concern of this study was to investigate differences between men and women employed in traditional male occupations using the Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) and the Self-Directed Search (SDS). The VPI and the SDS were administered to 165 male and female college degreed workers in three occupations (engineering, medicine, and ministry) corresponding to three of Holland's environmental categories (Realistic, Investigative, and Social). In general, the results for the three VPI and SDS scales and for these occupational groups indicate that men in traditionally male occupations, when compared to women in those same occupations, tend not to report higher mean raw scale scores. The mean raw scores obtained by men and women on the VPI and the SDS scales seemed to be far more similar than different.
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