Gender Inequalities in Educational Pathways
Gender Inequalities in Educational Pathways

Summary/Abstract: The central idea of this paper concerns the gender gap in educational pathways. This issue can be addressed from more perspectives. On the one hand, we can analyse this problem from the socialization process perspective. Through this process, individuals learn how to behave and make some evaluations regarding a particular aspect of their lives, in our case the decision-making process in educational career choices. What we can observe here in this paper, is the fact that the socialization process is gendered, prescribing from the earliest stages of life specific educational routes for men and women. On the other hand, we can move further and we can use another perspective such as the expectation-values theory. This theory takes into account the self-perceptions of students regarding their strengths and weaknesses within some disciplines. After this self-evaluation students make some decisions with respect to their future field of study that subsequently will shape their professional career. From the perspective of gender segregation, there are important and persistent disparities due to the uneven concentration of women and men in various fields of study, an issue that should be studied and addressed more, particularly in terms of policies. Therefore, this issue will be presented and analysedin this paper by using the literature in this domain of interest. Also, I will use some statistical data to support this statement.

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