Career Patterns Women Career

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2.3.2 Career Patterns

Based on the book of Career Development of Women, it is stated that: The term career pattern originated in the field of sociology, in the study of social mobility by means of occupational mobility. The sociological term refers to the sequence of occupations in the life of an individual or of a group of individuals. This sequence may be analyzed in order to ascertain the major work periods which constitute a career. Super states the classification of women career patterns; they are stable homemaking no significant work experience, conventional work after education but not after marriage, stable working single women who work continuously, double-track married women who work continuously, interrupted married women who work, then are fulltime homemakers, then return to work, unstable in and out of the labor force at irregular intervals, and multiple-trial a succession of unrelated jobs as explained below: 1. The Stable Homemaking Career Pattern In this category, they are women who have no significant work experience and they decide to get married after leaving school and having expected to do so. 2. The Conventional Career Pattern In the pattern, women after they finish their study, go for work in several months or years. However, when they get married, they will leave their job and be homemaker fully. 3. The Stable Working Career Pattern In this type, after women finish their study, they embark a career which becomes the woman’s life work. She will work continuously. 16 4. The Double-Track Career Pattern In this pattern, after completing education or school women will go for job or work, then marry, but they keep working even they have married. Therefore, they will have two roles of career as working and homemaking. 5. The Interrupted Career Pattern Women in this type, they go for work after they get education, then marry and be homemaking, but they return as working women. Women who do it have some reasons. First, they will be homemaking when they marry and no working. Then, after their children have grown up and could be left, they will continue for work. Another reason is that they return for work after they divorce or be widowed. 6. The Unstable Career Pattern The women in this pattern are they who work, homemaking, and work again and back to the full homemaking. 7. The Multiple-Trial Career Pattern This pattern consists of a succession at unrelated jobs and has no stability from one of the job. The explanation of varieties career pattern that could be found in every women from all over the world and this leads the writer in analyzing what kind of career patterns in the movie are.

2.3.3 Feminism