An examination of collectivist and individualistic young adult women's future goals and their evaluation.

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It is important to understand how young adult women select and evaluate goals for the future because in spite of having a variety of available career options, women are still not entering all careers at an equal rate to men (Hakim, 2006), and are primarily engaging in homemaking (Marks & Houston, 2003) or embarking on careers that are considered to be traditionally feminine, such as teaching or nursing (Kmec, 2005; Okamoto & England, 1999). As such, the present study had two primary research objectives, (1) to quantitatively investigate the career- marriage- and child-related goals that young adult women in an individualistic culture set for the future, as well as the factors that were associated with positive or negative evaluations of the achievability of these goals, and (2) to investigate cultural differences and similarities in the self-described goals of collectivist (Korean) and individualistic (North American) young adult women, as well as the factors that influence the selecti

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