Sample
The population of interest for this study were employed women (ranging in ages from 18-45) living in the United States. A list of employees from four different types of occupations were used as a sampling frame to form a population to sample from. Employment records from traditionally male-dominated workplaces: Engineering and police work as well as from female-dominated workplaces: nursing and reception work (INSERT CITATION FROM WEBSITE). By using this sampling frame, it should represent a variety of different women socio-economic classes. Women were recruited based on random selection based on age and occupation within a given company. Participants were compensated $25 dollars for their participation. To help aid in involvement a …show more content…
This survey will provide a detailed account of women’s experiences and attitudes that will be useful in examining and refining reduction and prevention measures in regard to sexism in the workplace. As previously discussed, a letterhead of support and encouragement from the head of the department will be attached to the front of the mail-survey. To protect anonymity names and address of participants will be properly discarded that the earliest convenience and participants will be referred to as a code number. By disregarding personal information and identifiable information of the participants their confidentiality is also maintained. Participation in this survey is completely voluntary and there is no chastisement for choosing not to participate. Since there is no form of deception occurring in this current study, a debriefing will not be needed. To minimize inaccurate results a survey introduction will instruct participants to answer honestly, to the best of their abilities, and to complete the survey leaving no question
The population of interest for this study were employed women (ranging in ages from 18-45) living in the United States. A list of employees from four different types of occupations were used as a sampling frame to form a population to sample from. Employment records from traditionally male-dominated workplaces: Engineering and police work as well as from female-dominated workplaces: nursing and reception work (INSERT CITATION FROM WEBSITE). By using this sampling frame, it should represent a variety of different women socio-economic classes. Women were recruited based on random selection based on age and occupation within a given company. Participants were compensated $25 dollars for their participation. To help aid in involvement a …show more content…
This survey will provide a detailed account of women’s experiences and attitudes that will be useful in examining and refining reduction and prevention measures in regard to sexism in the workplace. As previously discussed, a letterhead of support and encouragement from the head of the department will be attached to the front of the mail-survey. To protect anonymity names and address of participants will be properly discarded that the earliest convenience and participants will be referred to as a code number. By disregarding personal information and identifiable information of the participants their confidentiality is also maintained. Participation in this survey is completely voluntary and there is no chastisement for choosing not to participate. Since there is no form of deception occurring in this current study, a debriefing will not be needed. To minimize inaccurate results a survey introduction will instruct participants to answer honestly, to the best of their abilities, and to complete the survey leaving no question