Abstract
The 15 year longitudinal Illinois Valedictorian Project follows 81 students who graduated at the top of their Illinois high school classes of 1981. The current study draws from qualitative and quantitative data to analyze the educational and occupational lives of female valedictorians 10 years after high school graduation. Discriminant function analyses, conducted when the students were college seniors and patterned on the Terman study investigation of the most and least successful male subjects (Oden, 1968), revealed that differences in career aspirations among academically talented women were largely accounted for by their varying approaches to career‐family balance. Discriminant analyses were repeated in the tenth year of the study in order to examine women's present occupational achievements in light of their aspirations as college undergraduates.
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