Gendering social mobility: a comparative perspective on the nexus of education and class in Europe

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Autor(a) principal: Abrantes, P.
Data de Publicação: 2014
Outros Autores: Abrantes, M.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/9534
Resumo: Research on social mobility typically acknowledges the relevance of gender. However, gender-based differences still lack extensive description and explanation. This article starts by reviewing a number of influential contributions on social mobility, educational systems and employment change, as well as important critiques raised in feminist scholarship with regard to these topics of enquiry. We argue that class analysis should not only document asymmetry between men and women in greater detail, but also incorporate it as a piece of explanatory value in the understanding of social mobility at large. This is attempted by examining the data of the European Social Survey covering 22 countries. Drawing on this large-scale data set, we will demonstrate that the transformation of employment structures favours particular forms of upward mobility, which coexist with the resilience of gender inequality in accessing affluent classes. The impact of gender on the nexus between social background, educational attainment and class position is far from uniform in Europe, with significant variation across classes, countries and fields of study.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Gendering social mobility: a comparative perspective on the nexus of education and class in Europe
title Gendering social mobility: a comparative perspective on the nexus of education and class in Europe
spellingShingle Gendering social mobility: a comparative perspective on the nexus of education and class in Europe
Abrantes, P.
Class
Education
Employment
Europe
Gender
Social mobility
title_short Gendering social mobility: a comparative perspective on the nexus of education and class in Europe
title_full Gendering social mobility: a comparative perspective on the nexus of education and class in Europe
title_fullStr Gendering social mobility: a comparative perspective on the nexus of education and class in Europe
title_full_unstemmed Gendering social mobility: a comparative perspective on the nexus of education and class in Europe
title_sort Gendering social mobility: a comparative perspective on the nexus of education and class in Europe
author Abrantes, P.
author_facet Abrantes, P.
Abrantes, M.
author_role author
author2 Abrantes, M.
author2_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Abrantes, P.
Abrantes, M.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Class
Education
Employment
Europe
Gender
Social mobility
topic Class
Education
Employment
Europe
Gender
Social mobility
description Research on social mobility typically acknowledges the relevance of gender. However, gender-based differences still lack extensive description and explanation. This article starts by reviewing a number of influential contributions on social mobility, educational systems and employment change, as well as important critiques raised in feminist scholarship with regard to these topics of enquiry. We argue that class analysis should not only document asymmetry between men and women in greater detail, but also incorporate it as a piece of explanatory value in the understanding of social mobility at large. This is attempted by examining the data of the European Social Survey covering 22 countries. Drawing on this large-scale data set, we will demonstrate that the transformation of employment structures favours particular forms of upward mobility, which coexist with the resilience of gender inequality in accessing affluent classes. The impact of gender on the nexus between social background, educational attainment and class position is far from uniform in Europe, with significant variation across classes, countries and fields of study.
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