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  Important gender differences remain when it came to career choice and development. For one thing, most women still subordinate their career goals to their husbands. This is even the case with  academically gifted   women. If a married man wants or needs to move to another job, his wife typically follows him and takes the best job she can find in the new location. Hence, married women usually have less control over their career than married men do. The high divorce rate means that many women will have to provide for themselves and their children. One study reported that after a divorce, the woman’s standard of living drops 27 percent. Today’s women need to take these factors into account as they consider their career Options. Another gender difference concerns career paths. Men’s Career paths are usually continuous, whereas women’s tend to be discontinuous. In other words, once men start working full time, they usually continue to work. Women are more likely to interru...

  One of your biggest decisions in life is choosing a career . The importance of this decision is enormous. It may determine whether you are employed or unemployed, financially secure or insecure, happy or unhappy. Making career decisions can be scary. Individuals who exhibit secure attachment and who have achieved a solid sense of Identity thus seem better able to take the risks associated with making career choices. Although intelligence does not necessarily predict occupational success, it does predict the likelihood of entering particular occupations. Professions such as low, medicine, accounting, and engineering are open only to those who can meet increasingly selective criteria as they advance from high school to college to graduate education and professional training. The relationship between intelligence and occupational level generally holds well for men, but an ability achievement gap exists for women. In many occupations, special talents are more important than g...