Abstract

The Impact of Sex in choosing the Academic Specialization in the Iraqi Universities
University period is one of the important stages of individual preparation for the profession of the future, and the Research aims at Studying Sex differences in choosing academic specialization's at the Iraqi Universities.
Limiting to Samples of the mal and female students accepts at Baghdad University and Mustansiriya University for the academic year 2002-2003, as for the professional Environments according to the research aims, the Academic Specialization.
The total number of the Students was (1131);(655) male student and (416) female students were distributed in the six environments , (30) male students and (30) female students have been chosen randomly from each professional environment and were distributed in the analogous department of the profess-ional environments ; thus ,the total sample was (180) male students and (180) female students , the researcher used ( S.D.S){HOLLAND- KHALID } Scale arabized and amended for Iraqi environment in (2003)after scales have shown significance of validity and reliability that justify using them in personal and Investigative sides in Iraqi environments. and Researcher was Hypothesis that the performance of the male students is the same as the performance of the female students in all the six environments. Thus the Researcher used the statistical means are as follow:(Arithmetic Medium , person correlation coffined , Standard Deviation , T – Value for two independent values ) . The Results sows that are a statistical sex difference in the:
1-Realistic Environment on the Realistic and Enterprising Scales for the Male students.
2-and in the Investigative Environment on the Investigative and Enterprising scales are for the male students and for the female students on the Artistic scale.
3- And on the Artistic Environment was for the Male students in the realistic and Conventional Scales.
4-in the Social Environment was for the female students on the Artistic, Social and Conventional Scales.
5-and the results show in the Enterprising Environment on the Realistic, Investigative and Enterprising Scales for the male students.
6-But in the Conventional Environment on the Realistic scale for the male students and on the Artistic scale for the female students.