Knowing and highlighting a link between gender and motivational and cognitive aspects that shape attitude towards work may be useful in streamlining the process of recruitment and selection in the corporate environments. This research aims to study gender differences on attitudes towards work among young students. The overall objective of this research is to highlight the link between gender and attitude towards work. In the research a number 90 subjects aged 18 to 24 years (45 female students and 45 male students) have participated. After statistical processing of data, the results do not confirm statistically significant differences between genders in the measured values of subtests of the AHA battery.