COLORADO SPRINGS, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- A poll by Junior Achievement has found that U.S. teenage girls rank becoming a doctor as their top career choice.
U.S. boys worldwide, meanwhile, seem to be losing their interest in the profession.
The Interprise Poll found the 9.4 percent of teen girls ranked being a doctor as the ideal job -- the top vote-getter on a list of 37 potential careers. At the same time, the percentage of teen boys who consider being doctor the ideal career has fallen from 7.4 percent in 2003 to 1.9 percent in 2005, putting it near the bottom of a list.
Boys have consistently ranked being a business person as the most ideal job over the past three years.
The results reflect a survey of 1,065 teens between the ages of 13 and 18.
Combining the responses of both boys and girls to the poll, business occupations received 9.7 percent of responses, while medicine and teaching each received 6.2 percent and the entertainment business received 5.7 percent.
In similar polls conducted in 2001 and 2002, Junior Achievement reported, being a doctor was ranked the top career choice by all poll participants.
