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Maria Rönnlund; Aina Tollefsen – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2025
The article addresses school-to-work transitions among young women in a strongly male dominated professional sphere -- the transport industry. Drawing on interviews with two girls over the time span 2015-2022 and visits to their upper secondary school 2016-2019, the study focuses on how power structures related to gender play out in the…
Descriptors: Females, Disproportionate Representation, Work Environment, Power Structure
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Potter, Michael; Hill, Myrtle – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2009
The horizontal segregation of the workforce along gender lines tends to assign women to lower paid, lower status employment. Consequently, schemes to address segregation have focused on preparing women to enter non-traditional occupations through training and development processes. This article examines models to encourage women into…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Work Environment, Gender Discrimination