Summary. As part of a research into subject choice in Scottish senior secondary schools, 1,100 pupils were required to rate 15 careers on 6 criteria and to write essays about their future careers. Boys and girls agreed quite closely on, for example, the usefulness and prestige of the careers, but differed markedly about liking and interest. Boys put ‘engineer’ highest on ‘liking,’ but much lower on ‘salary’ and prestige; girls put ‘teacher’ (of non‐science subjects) highest on ‘liking,’ but much lower on salary and prestige. Similar results emerged from analysis of the essays. 1968 The British Psychological Society