- Title
- Students, careers and employers: findings from an international study
- Creator
- Dever, Maryanne
- Relation
- Bologna and beyond: New Perspectives on Gender and Gender Studies (5th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education) p. 63-74
- Publisher
- Humboldt University
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- Historically Women’s and Gender Studies programs (WS/GS) worldwide emerged from strategic political and intellectual agitation by women rather than from employer pressure for specific skills or knowledge; a fact that may foster understandings of these fields as having somewhat attenuated links to the labour market. Yet we know relationships between fields of study, anticipatory career expectations and actual labour market outcomes are increasingly complex ones in a world where the shape of work is rapidly changing. I am reporting here on findings from a three-year international study which examined three sets of stakeholders whose understandings of the possible relationships between Women’s and Gender Studies, career aspirations and employment experiences I felt we needed to understand better: (1) enrolled students; (2) careers advisers and employers with graduate hiring responsibilities; and (3) recent graduates. Survey responses were received from approximately 780 students enrolled in WS/GS programs at four universities in Australia, three in the United Kingdom and five in the United States1 and these responses were set alongside a small qualitative interview program with employers and recent graduates. In each of these national domains, Women’s and Gender Studies programs have been institutionalized for approximately three decades and the programs are generally located within the Humanities and/or Social Science faculties, although individual programs may utilize study electives and faculty expertise from beyond these areas.
- Subject
- womens studies; gender studies; labour market outcomes; career aspirations
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1057231
- Identifier
- uon:16161
- Language
- eng
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