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Professor John Polesel and Dr Veronica Volkoff, University of Melbourne, Australia
Monday 21 September 2009, 12:00-13:00
Vocational studies in school – does it matter if I’m a girl and if I’m poor?
- 👤 Speaker: Professor John Polesel and Dr Veronica Volkoff, University of Melbourne, Australia
- 📅 Date & Time: Monday 21 September 2009, 12:00 - 13:00
- 📍 Venue: Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1
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Abstract
This presentation examines the participation and performance of young women in a new school-based vocational program in Australia. It does so within a broader context of VET provision in schools and persistent patterns of gender and socio-economic status differences in curriculum choice. It presents evidence that young women experience poorer transitions than their male peers. Subject to a labour market which has become increasingly hostile to young female workers, young women find themselves at greater risk of being unemployed or working in poorly paid and largely part-time, casualised occupations.
Series This talk is part of the Visiting Scholar Seminars series.
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