Gender Perspectives on Vocational Education

Contents: Anna Borkowsky: Women and Men in Swiss Vocational Education - Silvia Grossenbacher: Women in Basic and Advanced Training - Agnes Weber: How Constitutional Change and Legal Reform Projects Foster Equal Opportunities in the Fields of Vocational Education and Higher Education in Switzerland - Philipp Gonon: Young Women in Swiss Vocational Education and in Business matura (School Leaving Examination) - Kathrin Spring: 16+ - Apprenticeship Project of the Swiss Conference of Gender Equality Delegates. Improving the Prospects of Young Women at the Start of their Professional Careers - Kurt Haefeli: A Long Way to Go - Vocational Schools, Teachers and Teachers' Education as a Focus for Promoting Gender Equality and Issues - Claudia Crotti: Higher Education for Women in Switzerland during the 19th Century or A History of Inequality - Iris Ludwig: The Swiss/Dutch Institution's Master in Nursing Science - Promoting Equality in the «Most Female among Women's Professions?» - Christine Mayer: Deficits of Professionalisation in the Field of Nursing in Germany - an Historical Analysis - Rudolf Husemann: Professional Development and Education in Health and Social Care - Sylvia Rahn: Gender, Social Background and Choice of Profession (Berufswahl) at the Beginning and at the End of the 20th Century: Historical Findings on the Plausibility of the Current Individualisation-Thesis - Dagmar Schulte: Gender-specific Choice of Career among Personal Development, Social Conditions and Educational Intervention - Håkon Høst/Svein Michelsen: The New Careworker - Expanding the Apprentice System into New Fields of Work - Dag Willy Tallaksen: From Housework and Factory to Oil and Caring: Men in Nursing? - Liv Mjelde: From Factory and Housework to Oil and Caring: Changes in Girls' Education in the Vocational Fields during the Years of Reform 94 - Antony Lindgren: Male and Female Identities in Higher Vocational Education in Sweden - Anja Heikkinen: The Making of the Masters and Mistresses of