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School guidance: the barometer of training courses favored by girls and boys

2022-11-24T11:13:43.857Z


The choice of orientation towards certain streams in secondary education remains very influenced by the gender of future students. This is what reveals


Launched in 2018, the Parcoursup platform is intended to collect assignment wishes from future students in French higher education.

Since then, every year, more than 300,000 future students list their career wishes there.

Medicine, law, sociology, or even business or engineering school… all of the training provided in secondary schools in France is available.

Mechanics for boys, fashion for girls...

And, clearly, some sectors are extremely gendered.

At the top of the table, we find the “Aesthetics-cosmetics-perfumery professions”, path chosen by 97.3% of girls.

In the same sector, “Fashion-clothing professions” also received 84% of their wishes.

Secondly, several professions related to early childhood attract few young men.

This is the case for the “Speech therapist capacity certificate” which received 45,911 applications in 2021, including 44,354 women (i.e. 96.6%).

We find similar proportions for the “DE Educateur de Jeunes Enfants” which attracted 94.7% of young girls.

The third place on the podium is occupied by training related to the secretariat, “Medico Social” with 92% of candidates or even legal (92%).

The level of training can also weigh on the wishes.

According to Iris Ollivault, guidance counselor and career coach based in Angers (Maine-et-Loire), "girls can opt for predominantly literary courses in the long streams, and for professions with a strong social dimension in the short stream. .

This distinction is also made among boys, particularly between applied sciences and so-called technical professions”.

Among boys, it is by far in fields related to mechanics that they will have the least chance of being trained alongside young girls.

They are 98% to have wished to engage in a course of "Lift technician" or in BTS "Internal combustion engine".

It is 97% for “Welding Technician” or for “Maintenance of vehicles option motorcycles”.

Similarly, trades related to electronics or heavy industry struggle to attract young girls: "Design and construction of industrial boilermaking" (4%), "Electrical engineering" (5.3%), Networks and telecommunications (8 .2%).

Parity in the hotel and catering industry

Not all industries are affected.

Starting with management courses linked to the hotel and catering industry, which are perfectly balanced, or “Commercial Operational” training (50%).

The same applies to certain fields of Human Sciences, such as History, or artistic fields such as musicology or cinema.

But clearly, “the more the sciences are applied, the further we move away from parity” specifies the guidance counsellor.

"Without in-depth work to deconstruct gender stereotypes, targeted by sector, the compulsory return of maths to first grade will not, on its own, restore the image of science courses in the eyes of girls," she concludes.

Detailed data is available academy, by academy, on the website of the Ministry of Research and Higher Education.

They cover all candidates who made at least one wish in the main phase and/or in the additional phase (excluding apprenticeship training) during the 2021 campaign.

Source: leparis

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