Abstract

This study analyzed factors influencing women's job consciousness, aiming at delineating implications for developing a trainging program to promote women's job consciousness and adaptability. 1,227 female employees were surveyed. The results of path analyses revealed that some variables, such as job satisfaction and the experience of gender discrimination in the workplace, affected job consciousness of women in general. However, differences were found depending on the marrital status of respondents. The variables affected unmarried women workers were job satisfaction, age and the degree of experiences of gender discrimination, whereas those affected married women were the number of children, job satisfaction, the total year of employment, experiences of gender discrimination, sex role attitudes, etc. The implications were discussed for the development of a training program to strengthen women's job consciousness.