The road not taken: Women's life paths and gender-linked personality traits

► Examines the personalities of midlife women who followed non-normative life paths. ► Three non-normative paths: high status professions, no children, single mothers. ► Each non-normative group exhibited unique combination of gendered traits. ► Differences at both scale and item levels. ► Discussion highlights social roles, and reasons for specific constellations of traits.