Gender Differences in Career Self-Efficacy in Singapore

This study explores the gender differences in career self-efficacy and self-efficacy expectations in Holland's six model environments, in the context of Singapore. It also assesses the underlying dimensions for gender differences in career self-efficacy, by investigating whether gender differences in career self-efficacy would be predicted by self-efficacy in domains corresponding to the three-letter codes associated with the occupations. Men were found to be significantly higher than women in self-efficacy for the enterprising and realistic domains, while women were significantly higher than men for self-efficacy scores in the artistic, investigative and social domains. Gender differences in career self-efficacy were predicted by self-efficacy in the three-letter code domains for 22 occupations, that is, 73% of the occupations.