Review: Kristin Gisbert (2001). Geschlecht und Studienwahl. Biographische Analysen geschlechtstypischer und -untypischer Bildungswege [Gender and the Choice of Discipline. Biographical Studies of Gender Typical and Atypical Careers]

Abstract

GISBERT offers an analysis of the biographical factors that lead students to choose either male-dominated or female-dominated university courses. This comprehensive work, which uses a developmental psychological approach, investigates eight individual cases. By means of biographical interviews and additional data collected during the period of study, GISBERT is able to show that identity-shaping factors that determine a gender-specific choice of academic subject are formed at an early age, for example, through certain structures of family interaction. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0201247

Keywords

• biographical studies
• qualitative research
• choice of academic course subject
• identity formation
• gender roles
• fields of interest
• gender types