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Why do girls' and boys' gender-(a)typical occupational aspirations differ across countries? How cultural norms and institutional constraints shape young adolescents' occupational preferences

Occupational sex segregation persists in all European and OECD countries; yet in some countries, it is more pronounced than in others. In this paper we seek to explain these cross-national variations by analyzing the realistic occupational aspirations of 15-year-old pupils in 29 EU and OECD countries. Based on socialization and rational choice approaches we develop hypotheses for how cultural norms and national institutions might influence the gender-typing of occupations. These are tested by applying 2-step multi-level models to the OECD's 2006 PISA study merged with country-level data from various sources. Results indicate that girls develop gender-(a)typical occupational aspirations in response to structural education and labor market differences across countries, while boys' gender-(a)typical aspirations are mainly influenced by country variations in normative prescriptions of gender-essentialist cultures and self-expressive value systems. The findings point at the necessity for differentiating both between micro- and macrolevel explanations and between explanations for women and men. (author's abstract)

Why do girls' and boys' gender-(a)typical occupational aspirations differ across countries? How cultural norms and institutional constraints shape young adolescents' occupational preferences

Urheber*in: Leuze, Kathrin; Helbig, Marcel

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Seite(n): 41
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet

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Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (P 2015-002)

Thema
Wirtschaft
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Berufsforschung, Berufssoziologie
Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Junge
geschlechtsspezifische Faktoren
Berufswunsch
Mädchen
Sozialisation
internationaler Vergleich
OECD
EU

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Leuze, Kathrin
Helbig, Marcel
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH
(wo)
Deutschland, Berlin
(wann)
2015

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  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Leuze, Kathrin
  • Helbig, Marcel
  • Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH

Entstanden

  • 2015

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