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

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.