-typed occupational preferences using data for British children aged between 11 and 15. We anchor agency in observable psychological … attributes associated with children's capacity to act in the face of constraints. We focus on two such attributes, motivation and … affect children's occupational ambition, and 2) parental sex-typical behaviors, from which children learn which occupations …

There is a high degree of sex-typing in young children's occupational aspirations and this has consequences for adult … agency in this process. This study analyzes the determinants of sex-typed occupational aspirations amongst British children … scope of children's occupational aspirations, 2) children's imitation of parental occupations, and 3) children's learning of …