Volume 3, No. 1 – January 2002

Review Note

Kristin Gisbert (2001). Geschlecht und Studienwahl.Biographische Analysen geschlechtstypischer und -untypischer Bildungswege [Gender and the Choice of Discipline. Biographical Studies of Gender Typical and Atypical Careers]

Angela Kaupp (Germany)

Abstract: GISBERT offers an analysis of the biographical factors that lead students to choose either male-dominated or female-dominated university courses. This comprehensive work, which uses a developmental psychological approach, investigates eight individual cases. By means of biographical interviews and additional data collected during the period of study, GISBERT is able to show that identity-shaping factors that determine a gender-specific choice of academic subject are formed at an early age, for example, through certain structures of family interaction.

Key words: biographical studies, qualitative research, choice of academic course subject, identity formation, gender roles, fields of interest, gender types

This contribution is only available as a full text in the German language. German text

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