Gender stereotyping affecting career choices / Esmeralda Joan Philip Brodie and Mclester Banta Ngelai

In Malaysia, gender stereotyping in affecting career choices is still an issue where we still have a conservative mindset in choosing career choices with the suitability according to the gender. This issue is unavoidable due to the culture that we build and possess and probably in other countries where female joining male-oriented occupation and male joining female-oriented occupation is a common thing but not in Malaysia. It is believed that in every organization gendered job does exist although there is policy on Equal Opportunity. The selected public agencies of Kota Samarahan area are Klinik Kesihatan Kota Samarahan and Kota Samarahan Police Station. A random sample of 150 staffs was given the questionnaires to identify the factors influencing a particular gender in career choices, the barriers that hinders them in choosing their own career and society’s traditional views on women engaging in certain work area and suggestion and recommendation on how to avoid gender stereotyping in career choices.