Abstract

D’ANDREA, Ana María; BUONTEMPO, María Paula  and  POZZER, José Antonio. The voices of the young people of a traditionally male technical secondary school on education and work. Sinéctica [online]. 2019, n.53.  Epub Aug 28, 2020. ISSN 2007-7033.  https://doi.org/10.31391/s2007-7033(2019)0053-005.

The objective of this article is to understand the reflections that young people studying the specialty Wood and Furniture in a technical school in the province of Corrientes (Argentina) make about education and work and how these issues are crossed by the gender category. In order to recover their voices, surveys and focus groups are conducted with men and women, separately. There are differences in work expectations and training experiences between students of both sexes, where gender stereotypes are reproduced. It is clear from the study that one of the main challenges is to make visible the problems that women face in technical schools and to advance in the inclusion of the gender approach in public policies.

Keywords : women’s education; technical education; equal opportunity.