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Direct linkWarin, Jo – Gender and Education, 2019
This paper aims to open up the rationales that are used to argue for an increase in male participation in the early childhood education and care (ECEC) workforce. Two theoretical concepts are highlighted and compared: gender balance and gender flexibility. An ethnographic study was conducted in one unusual nursery that has five male workers, using…
Descriptors: Males, Nontraditional Occupations, Sex Fairness, Early Childhood Education
Buschor, Christine Bieri; Kappler, Christa; Keck Frei, Andrea; Berweger, Simone – Gender and Education, 2014
The study examines the career decision-making of Swiss academic high school students opting for a career in a non-traditional, gender-typed area of work during the transition to higher education. Based on a longitudinal study, a qualitative study with 11 female students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and 13 male student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Career Choice, Decision Making
Peer reviewedMcKinnon, Margaret; Ahola-Sidaway, Janice – Gender and Education, 1995
Highlights, from a critical-feminist perspective, challenges facing women in North America who enter nontraditional work settings through secondary school work education. Occupational niching and physical and social constraints are explored, and suggestions are made for curriculum reform. The proposed pedagogical agenda focuses on enhancing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Curriculum Development, Females
Peer reviewedCunnison, Sheila; Gurevitch, Christine – Gender and Education, 1990
Describes a year-long elementary school program in Hull (England) designed to diminish sex stereotyping. Employed craft, design, and technology projects, caring jobs for boys, football for girls, and school visits by adults in nontraditional occupations. Improved behavior of boys resulted, allowing teachers to give equal attention to girls. (DM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Nondiscriminatory Education
Peer reviewedEvetts, Julia – Gender and Education, 1993
Uses career history data from 15 women in professional engineering careers to examine some educational concomitants of nontraditional career choices. The focus, from an interactionist theoretical perspective, is on how women actually experienced becoming an engineer. The educational influences identified are those perceived by women themselves to…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Education Work Relationship, Educational Background, Educational Experience
