Holland's theory and college educated working black men and women

The main concern of this study was to investigate differences between college educated working men and women employed in traditional occupations who took the Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) and the Self Directed Search (SDS). The VPI and the SDS were administered to 109 black college educated workers in three of Holland's environmental categories (Realistic, Investigative, and Enterprising). In general, the findings for the three VPI and SDS scales and for these occupational groups indicate that black women when compared to black men in the same occupation tend to report similar mean raw scores. Black men and women in the same occupation seem to be far more similar than different.