GENDER WISE DIFFERENCES IN IDEALISTIC AND REALISTIC EXPRESSION OF OCCUPATIONAL- ASPIRATION OF SECONDARY LEVEL STUDENTS AT INITIAL AND MATURE CAREER POINT

The present study was conducted to analyze the gender wise differences in idealistic and realistic expression of occupational aspiration of secondary level students at their initial and mature career point . The sample of the study consisted of 400 adolescent students from Pauri District in Uttarakhand, India. The finding indicates that there is no significant difference between boys and girls in idealistic expression of occupational aspiration at initial and mature career point whereas there is significant difference found between boys and girls in realistic expression of occupational aspiration at initial career point.