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"Occupation selection processes in girls and young women: attempts at a theoretical explanation, and the empirical situation" Authors: Ursula Nissen (nissen@dji.de), Patricia Pfeil (pf@lagune.de)

Structure:

1. Topic outline

2. The situation of girls and young women in the Federal Republic of Germany

2.1. Education and training
2.2. Regional differences
2.3. Lifestyles
2.4. Women's plans for their lives and topics relevant to their lives

3. Theoretical attempts to explain gender-specific occupational choices

3.1. Subject-oriented approaches
(e.g. approaches relating to the socialization theory, "doing gender", psychoanalytical approaches)
3.2. Structure-oriented approaches
(e.g. segregation, labour-market structures)

4. Results of existing empirical studies

4.1. Role and influence of parents
4.2. Occupation selection and gender-role orientation at school
4.3. Acceptance of institutions providing vocational guidance
4.4. Girls and young women training in typically "female" occupations
4.5. Girls and young women in occupations in the field of science and information technology

5. Projects to change gender-specific occupational behaviour
(models providing occupational support for young people, social work in schools)

6. Results, conclusions and measures needed

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