The experience of students in a gender minority on courses at a college of higher and further education

Thurtle, Val; Hammond, Shaun; Jennings, Paul

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“…Studies that have investigated gender-imbalanced learning environments point to a gender asymmetry. Women and men are treated differently when their gender is in minority (Thurtle, Hammond, and Jennings 1998;Lappalainen et al 2012). In a study of higher education, Thomas (1990) could show that men in minority got advantages that women in minority did not get.…”

Section: A Gender-segregated Vocational Trainingmentioning

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The Glass Funnel: A Tool to Analyse the Gender Regime of Healthcare Education and Work

Hedlin

Åberg

2020

Journal of Vocational Education & Training

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The concepts glass escalator and glass ceiling have been widely used in studies of gender and organisations. In this paper we propose a novel metaphor to describe and analyse gender segregation and discrimination, that of a glass funnel. This concept does not relate to men and women as groups in the sense of fixed collective entities, but rather shows how taken-for-granted distinctions between men and women are reiterated and promote men in a way that downgrades women. However, as gender intersects with other power structures, both men and women can be propelled downwards through the funnelling motion made up of a marketoriented devaluation of the healthcare profession. Through an empirical investigation of the community of practice and gender regime of an upper secondary healthcare education programme in Sweden, we develop the glass funnel concept, an analytical tool aiming to open up for intersectional analyses of healthcare education and work.

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Section: A Gender-segregated Vocational Trainingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Glass Funnel: A Tool to Analyse the Gender Regime of Healthcare Education and Work

Hedlin

Åberg

2020

Journal of Vocational Education & Training

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Seekers, Finders, Settlers, and Stumblers: Identifying the Career Paths of Males in the Genetic Counseling Profession

Chen

Veach

Schoonveld

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Journal of Genetic Counseling

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Genetic counseling is a female-dominated profession, with 96% of counselors self-identifying as female. Research suggests gender diversification benefits healthcare professionals and the populations they serve. Therefore, this study explored how men choose a genetic counseling career, associations between career satisfaction and their career entry dynamics and experience levels, and differences due to experience level in how they decide on this profession. Twenty-five novice, experienced, or seasoned male counselors and 8 male genetic counseling students participated in semi-structured phone interviews. Interpretive content and cross-case analyses of interview data were informed by Simpson's "Seekers, Finders, and Settlers" theory describing career entry dynamics of men in non-traditional (i.e., female-dominated) fields. Results revealed 13 interviewees were Seekers, who initially knew they wanted a career in genetic counseling, actively chose the profession, and were satisfied with their decision. Eleven were Settlers, who had tried different, traditional jobs, with limited satisfaction before actively finding and choosing genetic counseling. Two were Finders, who discovered genetic counseling while in the career decision making process and made a passive choice to pursue it as they had no feasible, satisfactory alternative. Seven men fit a new category, we termed "Stumblers," who were in another career and satisfied, but changed to genetic counseling after happening to hear about it. Prevalent themes pertaining to participants' experiences in the career include desire for a multidisciplinary career; lack of a priori knowledge of genetic counselor roles; late exposure to the profession; and varied perceptions of being in a non-traditional career. There were few differences due to experience level and career satisfaction was high across the sample. Results suggest earlier exposure to the career and availability of detailed descriptions of its multidisciplinary nature may increase the number of males in the profession.

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Ecotourism community enterprises and ethnodevelopment: modelling the Kalunga empowerment possibilities in the Brazilian savannah

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The experience of students in a gender minority on courses at a college of higher and further education

Cited by 4 publications

References 4 publications

The Glass Funnel: A Tool to Analyse the Gender Regime of Healthcare Education and Work

The Glass Funnel: A Tool to Analyse the Gender Regime of Healthcare Education and Work

Seekers, Finders, Settlers, and Stumblers: Identifying the Career Paths of Males in the Genetic Counseling Profession

Ecotourism community enterprises and ethnodevelopment: modelling the Kalunga empowerment possibilities in the Brazilian savannah

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