Follow-up on the Internship Component of the Women and Career Options Program, 1984

This study was a follow-up of Trachtenberg's Student Internship Program, 1975 (Log# 00073) data. The internship program, funded by the Carnegie Corporation, was designed to encourage and facilitate the entry of women into predominantly male professions. The follow-up was primarily concerned with examining the balance of the professional and personal lives of women who had applied for the internships in college. The original 1975 participants were 250 women attending Boston College, Brandeis University, Hampshire College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Of 160 participants for whom addresses were available, 104 responded (a response rate of 65%). Four were dropped from analysis because they were older than the other participants. Most participants had graduated from college around 1975 and were around 30 years of age when the follow-up was conducted in 1984. Follow-up participants completed a self-administered questionnaire. The questionnaire was adapted from Tangri's Longitudinal Study of Career Development in College-Educated Women, 1967-1981 (Log# 00009) Womens Life Paths Questionnaire. Open- and closed-ended questions were used to collect data about the participants' activities and experiences since college. Items covered topics such as education, employment, balancing work and family, and outcomes of the internship program. The Murray Research Archive holds 99 of the original record paper questionnaires. Follow-up of this sample is possible.