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Young women choosing careers: who decides?

This paper is a narrative about young women in Australia, their career choices and attendant anxieties. The data pr ... Show more
This paper is a narrative about young women in Australia, their career choices and attendant anxieties. The data presented provides a window into young women's experiences when choosing their career destinations in school, and how their transitions to post-school life are enmeshed in long-term social, political and economic change. The backdrop to this narrative is society's valorisation of choice - having choice is desirable, and the more of it the better. Choice is closely associated with mobility and self-determination, and is sometimes taken to be synonymous with freedom. Our young women want choice, they want options, but how they understand and navigate such choices are constrained by the advice they are getting in their immediate lives, the wider changes in contemporary labour markets, and the uncertainty that hangs over them.
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Authors: Gleeson, Joanne; Walsh, Lucas; Gallo Cordoba, Beatriz; Mikola, Masha ... [+] Show more

Date: 2022

Geographic subjects: Australia; Oceania

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Subjects: Gender; Youth; Career development ... [+] Show more