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Direct linkHedlin, Maria – Gender and Education, 2011
The purpose of this article is to elucidate how the girl who chooses technology came to be the symbol of the non-traditional pupil's choice in Sweden. In the early 1960s it was hoped that girls would enter workshop training and then commit themselves to engineering mechanics jobs at a time when Sweden was characterised by economic growth which was…
Descriptors: Females, Career Choice, Foreign Countries, Nontraditional Students
