Les représentations sexuées des professions lors du processus de choix d’orientation vers les études de médecine chez les lycéen-ne-s de terminales scientifiques

Abstract

The aim of this article is to study the evolution of the curriculum orientation of students of both genders in higher studies in a context of mass feminization of medical studies in France for the last thirty years. This article is based on the results of a survey by questionnaire of 176 fourth-year scientific students (92 girls and 84 boys) in two urban secondary schools of the academy of Montpellier in 2009. The results of our study show the continuing influence of gender representations of professions and specialized medical field orientations in orientation choices.

Keywords

• feminization
• gender
• gender conceptions
• medical studies
• orientation choices