J1 Llenares Predictors of Career Choice of Women in Engineering and Architecture - ICEME Ver2

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Why study Career Choice of Women

in Engineering and Architecture?

Increasing number of

women taking Engineeringand Architecture

Productivity in Academicwork

Career Pathing
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Career choice in Engineering and

Architecture is an issue of:1. GWA in high school and type of high school

graduated from

2. Parents educational attainment and occupation.3. Combined Family Monthly income

4. Level of Self-Awareness

5. Level of Work and Family Orientation

These issues are the problems


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Hypothesis

There is significant

relationship between thepredictors of career choice

of women and non-

traditional areas.


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SCOPE AND DELIMITATION Only the graduating women in selected engineering

program were used in the study namely; civil

engineering, mechanical engineering, marine

engineering, electrical engineering and architecture.

20 % or 34 respondents out of150 population was used in

the study.

The variables in the study were also delimited in level of

Self-Awareness, level of Work and Family Orientation,Parents educational attainment and occupation, GWA

in high school and Combined Family Monthly income


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Only the Constructed Questionnaire were usedin the study. The questionnaire consists of 35

items and takes approximately 10 to 15 minutesto answer.


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Person-RelatedGWA in HS

Type of high school graduated

from

Family-Related

Family monthly income

Parents educationalattainment

Parents occupation

Self-Awareness

Interest

Values

Skills

AttitudeOpportunities for employment

Work and Family Orientation

Nontraditional AreasTechnical (ARCH, CE, EE,

MAR-E, ME)

Independent Variables

Dependent Variables

Figure 1. Illustrates the framework of the study


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METHOD Descriptive Research

The descriptive type of research describes, What

is. It includes descriptive recording, analysis andinterpretation of a condition that presently exists. Itoften involves comparison or contrast and attemptto discover cause and effect relationship that ispresent between existing manipulated variables.


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Participants The total population of female students

enrolled at the Technological Institute of the

Philippines-Quezon City for the secondsemester of school year 2010-2011 totaled to

150 and there were 20 % or 34 respondents

used in the study.

Renew yourself inwardly

That you may know what is good,acceptable and perfect Romans 12


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Research Instrument Constructed Career Choice of Women

Questionnaire was used to gather basic

information such as course, general weightedaverage in high school, family combined monthly

income and parents educational attainment.

It also used to assess the importance of work andfamily orientation, and self-awareness in terms of

interest, values, attitude, skills, and opportunities

for employment.


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Research Instrument

The Research Director examined the content of the

questionnaire before it was administered.

The constructed questionnaire was administeredfirst to 34 graduating women in engineering and

architecture before floating it to the 34 identifyrespondents.


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Statistical Treatment

To achieve the objectives of the study the followingstatistical treatment were used;

Frequency distribution Mean

Multiple regression

SPSS Version 18


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R E S U L T S1. Majority of the respondents GWA belongs to 85.00

and mostly are graduates from private school

2. Mostly of their parents are college graduates andmajority of their occupations are professionals liketeachers, managers, engineer, and administrativestaff.

3. Majority of their combined family monthly incomebelongs to P30,000P39,999


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Level of Work and Family

OrientationTable 1 Mean and Interpretation of Work and Family Orientation

Legend: INTERPRETATION

4.50-5.00 Strongly agree

3.50-4.49 Agree

2.50-3.49 Moderately agree

1.50-2.49 Slightly disagree

1.00-1.49 Not agree

Result shows that respondents agreed that work

and family orientation (X=4.11) affects them inmaking career decision. They believed that whenthey get married they have a happy family life anda satisfying relationship with their colleagues in the

job.

Mean Interpretation

Work and Family Orientation 4.11

Agree
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Level of Self-AwarenessTable 2 Mean and Interpretation of Self-Awareness

Legend: INTERPRETATION

3.50-4.00 Very Important

2.50-3.49 Important

1.50-2.49 Least Important

1.001.49 Unimportant

Mean Interpretation

Interest 2.82 Important

Values 2.98 ImportantOpportunities for

employment

3.55

Very Important

Attitude 3.13 Important

Skills 3.12 Important

Total 3.12 Important


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Level of Self-Awareness Findings in the study showed that the

students perceived interest, values,

attitude and skills as important andopportunities for employment as veryimportant in choosing their career.


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Predictors of Career ChoiceTable 3 Predictors of Career Choice

Model

UnstandardizedCoefficients

StandardizedCoefficients

Sig. Verbal InterpretationB Beta

(Constant) 13.150 .013Type of high school

-1.453 -.584 .000 SignificantAttitude 2.576 .738 .005 SignificantCombined family monthlyincome

-.306 -.445 .093Not significant

Father educational attainment .005 .008 .954Not significant

Mother educational attainment .118 .214 .343Not significant

GWA -.012 -.034 .854 Not significantFather Occupation -.814 -.385 .286

Not significantMother Occupation .246 .144 .443 Not significantInterest -2.521 -.834 .024 Not significantValues .208 .072 0.10

Not significantOpportunities -1.986 -.663 0.10

Not significantSkills .777 .227 .465

Not significantFamily and work Orientation -.693 -.241 .197

Not significant


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Predictors of Career Choice Evidence showed that only type of

high school graduated from (.000) and

attitude (.005) were the predictors ofcareer choice of women inEngineering and Architecture.


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Type of High School Graduated

from as Predictors The more the female students graduated from

private school the more they want to take

courses dominated by men this means that the

school administrators and teachers encourage

them to pursue their degree in engineering and

architectural program.

The school maximizes and recognizes the

potentials of the students taking engineering and

architectural courses.


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from as Predictors This supports the statement of Eli Ginzberg,

developmental theory that educational processsuch as proper educational preparation assists thestudent in selecting desired course Villar (2009).

Green (1984) stated that school should exert effortin assessing the capacity, ability and interest ofevery individual student under its supervision so that

it could provide them necessary and appropriateinformation and training.


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from as Predictors Evetts (1993) on her study entitled

Women in Engineering: educational

concomitants of a non-traditionalcareer choice revealed that womenperceived educational as important

and has influences on ones careerchoice


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Model R R SquareAdjusted R

SquareStd. Error of the

Estimate1 .933a .871 .788 .58112

The adjusted r square is 78.8 percent of the

variation in the outcome is determined by thepredictor variable.


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Conclusion Only 2 out of 13 variables (type of high school

graduated from, combined family monthly

income, father and mother educational

attainment, general weighted average in high

school, father and mother occupations, interest,

attitude, values, opportunities for employment,

skills and work and family orientation) are

predictors of career choice of women in non-traditional areas. This means that the hypothesis

posited in the study are partially confirmed.


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Recommendations1. This study suggested that high school institution

may develop a career pathing program for

female students who want to pursue their career

in engineering and architecture.

2. They may also link with agencies andorganization like Jobstreet, JobsDB and People

Management Association of the Philippines

(PMAP), Psychological Association of the

Philippines (PAP) and Philippine Guidance and

Counseling Association (PGCA) who are experts

in providing career information and counseling.


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