Arbeitspapier | Working paper
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)
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Englisch
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Seite(n): 41
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
- Erschienen in
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Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (P 2015-002)
- Thema
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Wirtschaft
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Berufsforschung, Berufssoziologie
Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Junge
geschlechtsspezifische Faktoren
Berufswunsch
Mädchen
Sozialisation
internationaler Vergleich
OECD
EU
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Leuze, Kathrin
Helbig, Marcel
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Veröffentlichung
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Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH
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Deutschland, Berlin
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2015
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- Rechteinformation
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Leuze, Kathrin
- Helbig, Marcel
- Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH
Entstanden
- 2015