Gendered Challenges of Transition from Education to Work
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This study examines the academic literature relating to transitions of young people from education to work, critically evaluating the historical and contemporary issues of the transition. The study identifies job changes, employer shifting, periods of unemployment, less apprenticeship choices, adult authority, patriarchy, racial and social discrimination, education, training, social support, and disability as common challenges to both genders. It has then explored some specific and extra challenges for female school leavers, and identified these as surrogate motherhood, marriage, motherhood, family, household, stereotyping, realism, materialism, single parent families, and gendered segregation. It has also been found out that the transition from education to work for both genders was almost as challenging in the past as is today, though the nature of challenges is slightly different. However, the additional challenges for female worker during transition make it a gendered process. The study makes policy recommendation for smooth transition from education to work, in addition of identifying the gender inclusion as the way forward for social and economic progress.
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