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Educational Systems and Gendered Transitions from School into Vocational Training and Work (ESGT)
Third-party funded project
Project title Educational Systems and Gendered Transitions from School into Vocational Training and Work (ESGT)
Principal Investigator(s) Imdorf, Christian
Project Members Wohlgemuth, Karin
Schoch, Aline
Cortesi, Sasha
Hanbury, Hugo
Organisation / Research unit Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Fachbereich Soziologie,
Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Sozialforschung und Methodologie (Bergman),
Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Bildungssoziologie (Imdorf)
Project start 01.06.2011
Probable end 31.05.2015
Status Completed
Abstract

In the Swiss labor market, women and men often work in different occupations. This horizontal gender segregation results in unequal life chances in Switzerland. Gender segregation in education varies internationally and it is particularly evident in systems where vocational education and training is prominent; that is where students are under constraint to make major career choices early on such as in the Swiss education system. The wide variety of differentiated vocational education and training programs on offer allows youths to make gender-typical career choices. Because of the strong linkage of education and employment in Switzerland, these choices translate into different jobs for women and men later on.

In spite of this important insight, we lack sufficient empirical research on the education system’s role in creating a gender-segregated labor market. The terminated research program has addressed this research gap and it has investigated from an international comparative perspective how the Swiss education system affects gender relations in education and in the labor market.

It studies the Swiss education system as an institutional structure that shapes the close link between education and career aspirations early in life and positions in the labor market later on.

The project has delivered empirically grounded knowledge on how the institutional logics of the education system and its underlying educational policy contribute to gender segregation in the labor market. It provides policy makers with the knowledge needed to reduce gender inequality in education and employment.

Based on a sociologically informed understanding of education systems that incorporates gender as an analytical category, the project represents an innovative contribution to international transition research. Methodically, the project relies on regionally and internationally comparative case studies. The data sources used are the Swiss youth panel study TREE and various international youth surveys from Bulgaria, Canada, Germany and Norway.

The regional and international case studies on the relation between education system and gender segregation have been complemented by two separate dissertation projects. Sasha Cortesi has investigated the principles of recruitment and selection in general and vocational upper secondary in Switzerland. Karin Wohlgemuth has examined how young women and men make individual career decisions in the light of the various education options offered by schools or vocational training programs.


Contact 

Prof. Dr. Christian Imdorf, Institut für Soziologie, Leibniz Universität Hannover


Recommendations for further reading

Bieri F, Imdorf C, Stoilova R, and Boyadjieva P (2016) The Bulgarian educational system and gender segregation in the labour market. European Societies 18(2): 158–179 (open access)

Heiniger M and Imdorf C (2018) The role of vocational education in the transmission of gender segregation from education to employment: Switzerland and Bulgaria compared. Journal of Labour Market Research 52:15 (open access)

Imdorf C, Sacchi S, Wohlgemuth K, Cortesi S, and Schoch A (2014) How cantonal educational systems in Switzerland promote gender-typical school-to-work transitions. Swiss Journal of Sociology 40(2): 551–57 (open access)

Imdorf C, Hegna K, Eberhard V, and Doray P (2015) Educational Systems and Gender Segregation in Education: A Three-Country Comparison of Germany, Norway and Canada. In Gender Segregation in Vocational Education: 83–122. Emerald Group Publishing Limited (open access)

Imdorf C, Hegna K, and Eberhard V (2016) Geschlechtersegregation im Bildungssystem – Welche Rolle spielt die Berufsbildung? Berufsbildung in Wissenschaft und Praxis, 45 (2). pp. 23-27 (open access)

Imdorf C, Hegna K, Reisel, L (eds.)(2015) Gender Segregation in Vocational Education. Comparative Social Research Vol. 31.

Kriesi I and Imdorf C (2019) Gender Segregation in Education. In: Becker R Research Handbook on Sociology of Education, Edward Elgar Publishing (forthcoming).

Wohlgemuth K, Schoch A, Imdorf C (2017) Transitions sexuées de l’école à la l’enseignement post-obligatoire en Suisse. In Buisson-Fenet H (Ed.) École des filles, école des femmes : L'institution scolaire face aux parcours, normes et rôles professionnels sexués. Louvain-la-Neuve: De Boeck Supérieur, 43-56 (Google Books)

Keywords Educational systems and organisations, education and work, school-to-work transition, gender segregation, Switzerland, international comparison, youth panels, case studies, school’s recruitment of students, educational pathways
Financed by Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

Published results ()

  ID Autor(en) Titel ISSN / ISBN Erschienen in Art der Publikation
454953  Leemann, Regula Julia; Imdorf, Christian  Zum Zusammenhang von Geschlechterungleichheiten in Bildung, Beruf und Karriere : ein Ausblick  978-3-531-17288-0  Geschlechtsspezifische Bildungsungleichheiten  Publication: Book Item (Buchkap., Lexikonartikel, jur. Kommentierung, Beiträge in Sammelbänden etc.) 
2424949  Imdorf, Christian; Sacchi, Stefan; Wohlgemuth, Karin; Cortesi, Sasha; Schoch, Aline  How cantonal education systems in Switzerland promote gender-typical school-to-work transitions  0379-3664  Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie / Swiss Journal of Sociology  Publication: JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift) 
2206825  Cortesi, Sasha; Imdorf, Christian  Le certificat fédéral de capacité en Suisse - Quelles significations sociales pour un diplôme hétérogène? = The Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training in Switzerland – Social significance of a heterogeneous certificate  2265-7762  Cahiers de la recherche sur l’éducation et les savoirs  Publication: JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift) 
2206831  Imdorf, Christian  Lorsque les entreprises formatrices sélectionnent en fonction du genre. Le recrutement des apprenti(e)s dans le secteur de la réparation automobile en Suisse  2105-2913  Revue française de pédagogie  Publication: JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift) 
1317170  Imdorf, Christian  Wenn Ausbildungsbetriebe Geschlecht auswählen : geschlechtsspezifische Lehrlingsselektion am Beispiel des Autogewerbes  978-3-531-18487-6  Bildung – Arbeit – Erwachsenwerden  Publication: Book Item (Buchkap., Lexikonartikel, jur. Kommentierung, Beiträge in Sammelbänden etc.) 
1384998  Buchholz, Sandra; Imdorf, Christian; Hupka-Brunner, Sandra; Blossfeld, Hans-Peter  Sind leistungsschwache Jugendliche tatsächlich nicht ausbildungsfähig? : eine Längsschnittanalyse zur beruflichen Qualifizierung von Jugendlichen mit geringen kognitiven Kompetenzen im Nachbarland Schweiz  0023-2653  Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie  Publication: JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift) 
1924023  Leemann, Regula Julia; Imdorf, Christian; Gonon, Philipp; Rosenmund, Moritz  Change and Reforms in Educational Systems and Organizations      Publication: Edited Book (Herausgeber eines eigenständigen Buches) 
1924040  Leemann, Regula Julia; Imdorf, Christian; Gonon, Philipp; Rosenmund, Moritz  Einführung zum Schwerpunktheft (Change and reforms in educational systems and organizations)  0379-3664  Swiss journal of sociology  JournalItem (Kommentare, Editorials, Rezensionen, Urteilsanmerk., etc. in einer wissensch. Zeitschr. 
2737826  Imdorf, Christian; Hupka-Brunner, Sandra  Gender differences at labor market entry in Switzerland  978-1-78471-502-1 ; 978-1-78471-503-8  Gender, Education and Employment: An International Comparison of School-to-Work Transitions  Publication: Book Item (Buchkap., Lexikonartikel, jur. Kommentierung, Beiträge in Sammelbänden etc.) 
3227447  Imdorf, Christian; Hegna, Kristinn; Liza, Reisel  Gender Segregation in Vocational Education  978-1-78560-347-1    Publication: Edited Book (Herausgeber eines eigenständigen Buches) 
3227448  Imdorf, Christian; Hegna, Kristinn; Eberhard, Verena; Doray, Pierre  Educational systems and gender segregation in education: a three country comparison of Germany, Norway and Canada  0195-6310  Comparative social research  Publication: JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift) 
3227451  Reisel, Liza; Hegna, Kristinn; Imdorf, Christian  Gender segregation in vocational education: Introduction  0195-6310  Comparative social research  Publication: JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift) 
3395062  Imdorf, Christian; Hegna, Kristinn; Eberhard, Verena  Geschlechtersegregation im Bildungssystem – Welche Rolle spielt die Berufsbildung?  0341-4515  Berufsbildung in Wissenschaft und Praxis  Publication: JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift) 
3399624  Wohlgemuth, Karin; Schoch, Aline; Imdorf, Christian  Transitions sexuées de l’école à l’enseignement post-obligatoire en Suisse  978-2-8073-0567-0  Ecole des filles, école des femmes. L'institution scolaire face aux parcours, normes et rôles professionnels sexué  Publication: Book Item (Buchkap., Lexikonartikel, jur. Kommentierung, Beiträge in Sammelbänden etc.) 
3766478  Wohlgemuth, Karin  Schule oder Berufsbildung? Übergänge in die nachobligatorische Bildung aus subjektiver und geschlechtsspezifischer Sicht in der Schweiz      Publication: Thesis (Dissertationen, Habilitationen) 
4479625  Cortesi, Sasha  La formation en école à plein temps du secondaire II en Suisse : hétérogénéité institutionnelle et traditions de formation      Publication: Thesis (Dissertationen, Habilitationen) 

Cooperations ()

  ID Kreditinhaber Kooperationspartner Institution Laufzeit - von Laufzeit - bis
2350377  Imdorf, Christian  Eberhard, Verena  Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training  01.10.2013  31.12.2015 
2350385  Imdorf, Christian  Doray, Pierre  Université du Québec à Montréal, CIRST  01.06.2012  31.12.2015 
2383522  Imdorf, Christian  Hegna, Kristinn  Norwegian Social Research NOVA  01.08.2012  31.12.2015 
   

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