Relationship Between a Feminist Approach to Career Counseling and Career Self‐Efficacy Beliefs

To determine whether liberal feminist and conventional approaches to career counseling might differentially affect women's career self‐efficacy beliefs, 40 college women heard audiotapes of career counseling and provided ratings of their own career self‐efficacy. Analysis supported the suggestion that a feminist approach to career counseling can have a significantly more positive effect on career self‐efficacy than a conventional approach. This was true for ratings on the category of nontraditional careers as well as for overall career self‐efficacy ratings.