scholarly journals Elegir ingeniería TIC ante el riesgo de exclusión en el futuro mercado digital=Choosing ICT engineering against the risc of exclusion in the future digital market

2020 ◽  
pp. 187
Author(s):  
María Pilar Sánchez Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Computer Engineering ◽  
Context Analysis ◽  
Occupational Gender ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Occupational Gender Segregation

<p align="left"><strong>Resumen</strong></p><p>Este artículo analiza desde una perspectiva de género los factores económicos por los que las grandes multinacionales tecnológicas quieren atraer a las mujeres al mercado laboral TIC. El análisis de contexto presenta un sector masculinizado, con un 80% de titulados en ingeniería informática y en el que, de cada cien profesionales, setenta y ocho son hombres. El artículo ahonda en los factores sociales por lo que persiste la segregación ocupacional de género y las relaciones de género que alejan a las mujeres de la tecnología. Las múltiples formas de organizar el trabajo en este sector abren nuevas posibilidades para la conciliación laboral y familiar.</p><p align="left"><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>This article analyses from a gender perspective the economic factors by which large technology multinationals want to attract women to the ICT labour market. The context analysis presents a masculinized sector with 80% of graduates in computer engineering and in which, out of every one hundred professionals, seventy-eight are men. The article delves into social factors so that occupational gender segregation persists and gender relations keep women away from technology. The multiple ways of organising work in this sector open up new possibilities for reconciling work and family life.</p>

Young women’s strong preference for children and subsequent occupational gender segregation

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shireen Kanji ◽  
Sandra Hupka-Brunner
Keyword(s):  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Strong Preference ◽  
Desire For Children ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Stereotypes ◽  
Desire To Have Children ◽  
Occupational Gender ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Occupational Gender Segregation

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse how and whether young women’s strong and early preference for having children relates to the degree of occupational segregation of the careers they envisage for themselves and the careers they actually enter by the time they reach age 23. Design/methodology/approach – Drawing on theories predicting that young women act to replicate gendered social stereotypes in their career choice and to anticipate careers they perceive to be reconcilable with future motherhood, the authors conduct quantitative analyses using panel data from the Transitions from Education to Employment Survey, a longitudinal survey of young people in Switzerland. OLS regression analyses how expressing a strong desire to have children at age 16 impacts: the proportion of women in the career engaged in at age 23 and the career anticipated age 16, relative to women not expressing this strong preference. Logistic regression examines whether selection into wanting children could be held responsible for the results. Finally the authors explore how initial expectations and later outcomes relate to each other. Findings – Women who express a strong interest in having children (Kinderwunsch) at age 16 anticipate and enter occupations with a substantially higher proportion of women. Differences in objective labour-market characteristics, such as academic attainment, ability and psychosocial factors, namely self-efficacy, are not related to having a strong desire for children at an early age. Family factors have multifaceted effects. Research limitations/implications – This research uses data from a cohort who were age 16 in 2000. The rapidly changing social context of Switzerland necessitates updating this analysis at regular intervals across cohorts. Practical implications – Discussion is required to expand young women’s understandings of the implications of different career choices and to broaden the range of options that they consider and to which employers provide access. Social implications – Wanting to have children is one of the factors that fuels occupational gender segregation. Although women might envisage that more gender-segregated occupations would allow them to combine work and family life, this may not be the case in reality. Originality/value – This paper explores the important but previously under-explored relationship between early fertility preferences and occupational entry for women.

scholarly journals Gender-Stratified Labor Market, Heterosexual Marriage Expectation, and LGBQ Young Adults’ Career Plans in Contemporary Japan

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 237802312110528
Author(s):  
Koji Ueno
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Career Planning ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Context Analysis ◽  
Global Perspectives ◽  
Career Plans ◽  
Occupational Gender ◽  
Occupational Gender Segregation ◽  
Heterosexual Marriage

Previous U.S. studies showed that many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) young adults hold optimistic views about their occupational careers, despite their risk for facing labor market disadvantages as LGBQ workers. The present study uses Japan as a comparison case and illustrates how young LGBQ people plan their careers in a different national context. Analysis of in-depth interviews shows that many LGBQ young adults in Japan anticipate financial insecurity and consequently prioritize stability over pursuit of personal interests in their career planning. Their career concerns vary by gender and represent their responses to high levels of occupational gender segregation and earnings inequality as well as strong social expectations for heterosexual marriage and gendered division of household responsibilities. Overall, the study endorses ongoing efforts to understand occupational and economic disparities across sexuality groups from global perspectives by paying close attention to macro conditions.

Occupational Gender Segregation and the Earnings Gap: Changes in the 1980s

1995 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.A. Cotter ◽  
J.M. Defiore ◽  
J.M. Hermsen ◽  
B.M. Kowalewski ◽  
R. Vanneman
Keyword(s):  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Earnings Gap ◽  
Occupational Gender ◽  
Occupational Gender Segregation
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