"Engagement in Personally Valued Occupations following Stroke and a Move to Assisted Living". Physical & Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics 32 (1): 25–41.
Studies comparing day centre attendees with people having psychiatric disabilities but not attending day centres have shown that the day centre attendees tend to have more valued occupations (Argentzell et al., 2012b), a larger social network (Argentzell, Leufstadius & Eklund, 2013), and a more pronounced apprehension of having a worker role (Argentzell & Eklund, 2013).
Basic manufacturing, electronics assembly type manufacturing, simply isn't a high value occupation any more.
In a time when valued skills and occupations shift constantly, we must be able to discover interests, opportunities and careers by experimenting.
The highest paid occupations are in male-dominated industries, which means that women tend to self-segregate to lower paid occupations but also, that certain occupations are valued less because they are (or become) women-dominated.
Her co-op was valued at $60,000; her occupation was listed as "none," the most common calling for the block's householders that year.
In broad strokes the imagery is universal, with light being the privileged symbol; yet the details are often culture-specific, with the occupations most valued by a given society receiving pride of place, as in the hunters' paradises of Australian Aboriginal mythology, the Platonic heaven for contemplatives, the bureaucratic heavens of imperial China, and the rabbinic Heavenly Academy.
(t value) Female occupations Integrated/male occupations Coef.
Those in the industry have also complained that the occupation is not valued by the education system, with both secondary and business schools putting little time into teaching the skills and knowledge needed.
It was also significantly associated with age (p value = < 0.001), gender (p value = < 0.001), education (p value = 0.004), occupation (p value = < 0.001) and socioeconomic status (p value < 0.001).
