ABSTRACT
The number of women turning to male-typed occupations such as medicine, law, engineering, and physics is constantly growing, though in the majority of these occupations women exist-at best-as a small minority, concentrated in specific niches. This phenomenon is expanding despite the still existing social and structural barriers; and although proceeding slowly, it does not manifest any signs of cessation.1 Despite the aforesaid, developing careers, even toward the end of the 1980s, was still considered more difficult for women and of lower priority among feminine roles. Hence, "working" is a socially legitimate endeavor for women nowadays but "careering" is not. In the past, the pervasive and popular ethos described women who attempted to pursue occupational careers as deviants because they departed from the norms:
The road to good adjustment for women is that which stays within the traditional feminine role (Lewis, 1968 cited in Angrist and Almquist, 1975).2
