Education and Gender
Lector: DI Barbara Buchegger / Teamconsult
Participants
Teachers
- Carla Biella / Italy / Instituto Turrisi Colonna
- Malin Söderberg / Sweden / Itgymnasiet i vSkövde
- Brigitte Rusu / Rumania / Colegiul National I.L. Caragiale
- Marieta Kabova / Bulgaria / Rosovo Dolina 1
Students
- Valeriá Valková / Slovakia / Gymnazium Sv. Vincenta de Paul
- Nicole Wurzenberger / Austria/ Tourismusschule Wassermanngasse Wien
- Claudia Löffler / Austria / Tourismusschule Wassermanngasse Wien
- Marcela Lasek / Poland / Zespol Skool Nr.3
- Natalia Bak / Poland / X. Liceum Ogólnoksztaka
- Anna Poplawska / Poland / Zespol Skol Nr 33
- Karolina Zuber / Poland / X. Liceum Ogólnoksztaka
Questions
- What are the participants' expectations?
- What do the participants associate with the word «Gender»?
- How do the different countries discuss «gender mainstraeming»?
- Different experiences in the different countries?
- Stereotype: reflection of the own stereotype behaviors
Schools
Which schools have a male / female connotation?
Girls: languages, history
Boys: informatics, science....
How do we choose a school? Influence of parents, talents, local aspects
Nowadays girls and boys seek for a substantiated education
Job achievement
Studies: girls more effort but worse job
Internet-Use
Differences in its use between girls and boys
Girls: as resource for school-based work, use the computer together with others
Boys: «single-user», more games
great regional differences of accessibility
Work
Parameter of career choice, women sometimes discriminated
Scholestic professions
Still women-dominated
Pyramide
Mobility
Men active very mobile, women are due to family stronger related to their place of residence.
Brain drain: e.g: male dominated jobs such as information technology or telecommunication migrate
«Where do we want to be in future?»
Themes
- Working abroad
- reasons for going abroad
- political, social situation
- same rights for working abroad all over Europe
- learning languages rises the possibilities for a good job
- Family and Job
- stereotypes: men-job, women-family
- women have to work full-time and should give whole energy to the family
- Being a minority
- classes:
- subtile manipulation by school books, teachers
- prejudices / general passivity
- transmission of certain patterns
- profession:
- inequality of job-opportunities
- «friendly harassment»
- Impact of Gender on educational and career choice
- Problems:
- discrimination at enrolment level
- self discrimination
- deciding to start a family
- attitudes of students, teachers, family, employers, ... conditioning students in their choice of education / profession
- Solutions:
- childcare at all levels
- paternity leave, «house husbands», awareness à value of family, career, job ...
- education: conviction not convenience
- work: vocation not necessity
Project ideas
- Film
- codes of dressing, impact on perception and stereotypes
- interviews: friend, male, female managers
- «typical» – «atypical» women
- changes over the last years
- «typical» – «atypical» jobs
- History project
- life of women in and after the war, women working in «male» jobs
- interviews (female relatives)
- important men influenced by women
- important women in history
- levels of emancipation: What has changed over the last three generations?
- single women: change of status during the last generations (change of language – attributions)
- changes of job-descriptions
- job opportunities
- discrimination of language
- discrimination of advertising, sexual discrimination
Summary
- remarque: no male participants in the workshop
- differences/similarities between countries
- we are all conditioned by stereotypes
- we are good in identifying problems, we should work on finding solutions
- awareness is important – first step – but not enough
- future aspects
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