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The Differential Effect Of Anticipated Work-Family Conflict On The Stem Major Embeddedness Of Men And Women, Dante P. Myers
The Differential Effect Of Anticipated Work-Family Conflict On The Stem Major Embeddedness Of Men And Women, Dante P. Myers
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It is nationally concerning that many students who begin as Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) majors do not complete their degrees. Of additional concern is that among the STEM students who do persist to degree completion, women are severely underrepresented. The present research investigates the extent to which anticipated conflicts between work and family life (AWFC) are negatively related to students’ embeddedness in their STEM majors, especially the STEM embeddedness of women. The hypothesized model was tested using structural equation modeling in Mplus-7 with a sample of 218 STEM students from an archival database. As hypothesized, work-family decision making …