Women in Engineering Careers: Does Parental Income Affect their Work Values?
Engineering is one of the male dominated careers, however, there is an increasing women entry into the engineering profession in the Philippines. Scholars have reported numerous factors on women entry in engineering careers such as rewarding work opportunities, interest, and talent in science and ma...
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| description | Engineering is one of the male dominated careers, however, there is an increasing women entry into the engineering profession in the Philippines. Scholars have reported numerous factors on women entry in engineering careers such as rewarding work opportunities, interest, and talent in science and mathematics, etc. This different reason led women to enter into engineering career which is worthy of study. The study assessed the effects of parental income on work values of women in the engineering profession. A descriptive survey research designed was used, 39 respondents were purposively selected from various Engineering programs (civil, mechanical, electrical, computer, electronics, marine engineering, and environmental and sanitary). The study utilized One way MANOVA with post hoc analysis. Results showed that the respondents have "moderate" intellectual achievement orientations, interpersonal, and occupational work values and they had "weak" familial, managerial, and material work values. Further, the computed One way MANOVA reported that parental income affects the intellectual-achievement orientation, interpersonal, managerial, material, and occupational some work values of women engineers. This report has implication on guidance and counseling practice on career placement of women in the engineering industry. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5ae25a8e4a8647038354ddb9eb1a50842022-12-22T03:17:05ZengPhilippine Association of Institutions for Research, Inc.JPAIR2012-39812244-04452017-01-01271294610.7719/jpair.v27i1.458426Women in Engineering Careers: Does Parental Income Affect their Work Values?Ian Llenares0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9176-9098Reallyn Llenares1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8493-8105Jay Sario2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4755-3510Technological Institute of the PhilippinesPio del Pilar Elementary SchoolMetropolitan Medical Center College of Arts Science and TechnologyEngineering is one of the male dominated careers, however, there is an increasing women entry into the engineering profession in the Philippines. Scholars have reported numerous factors on women entry in engineering careers such as rewarding work opportunities, interest, and talent in science and mathematics, etc. This different reason led women to enter into engineering career which is worthy of study. The study assessed the effects of parental income on work values of women in the engineering profession. A descriptive survey research designed was used, 39 respondents were purposively selected from various Engineering programs (civil, mechanical, electrical, computer, electronics, marine engineering, and environmental and sanitary). The study utilized One way MANOVA with post hoc analysis. Results showed that the respondents have "moderate" intellectual achievement orientations, interpersonal, and occupational work values and they had "weak" familial, managerial, and material work values. Further, the computed One way MANOVA reported that parental income affects the intellectual-achievement orientation, interpersonal, managerial, material, and occupational some work values of women engineers. This report has implication on guidance and counseling practice on career placement of women in the engineering industry.https://philair.ph/index.php/jpair/article/view/458social scienceengineering educationwomen engineerswork valuesparental incomedescriptive-surveyphilippines |
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| title | Women in Engineering Careers: Does Parental Income Affect their Work Values? |
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| title_short | Women in Engineering Careers: Does Parental Income Affect their Work Values? |
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