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male model of career  

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  • The male model of career in the United States has deep cultural and historical roots in the ideal of the self-made man. The self-made man is a cultural ideal of manhood in which an individual's hard work leads to wealth, status, power, autonomy, and upward mobility. [Source: Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia; Male Model of Career]

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