Emanuele Fedeli – Università degli Studi di Trento (email: emanuele.fedeli@unitn.it)
Ilaria Lievore – Università degli Studi di Trento (email: ilaria.lievore@unitn.it)
Ilaria Pietropoli – Università degli Studi di Trento (email: ilaria.pietropoli@unitn.it)
A growing body of economic and sociological research has focused on gender disparities
and gender inequalities in several crucial long-term life outcomes in recent years. The
experience of COVID-19 has contributed to exacerbating pre-existing gender gaps and
disparities, especially when looking at the educational and labour market contexts. Previous
literature shows that gender disparities in educational choices, aspirations, expectations,
achievements and attainments are substantial at each stage of the educational path. Such
differences favour either boys (e.g., maths) or girls (e.g., more schooling), depending on the
outcome under analysis. Despite increased participation of women in tertiary education,
research still underlines female constraints and restrictions also in terms of access to the
labour market, segregation, careers and earnings.
This also translates in a mismatch between women’s educational success and their actual
possibilities in the job market, making necessary a new focus on expectations, values,
choices and aspirations by gender, both within the school context and the job market
environment.
This call aims at including contributions regarding gender differences in the educational
context, consequently in the labour market and the school-to-work transition, welcoming
both quantitative and qualitative contributions, as case studies or with a comparative
perspective.
Any of the following or related items are welcome:
• Gender differences in educational achievements and attainments
• Gender differences in educational choices and fields of studies
• COVID-19 impact on gender inequalities
• Gender differences in school-to-work transition
• Gender differences in educational and career aspirations and expectations
• Gender differences in labour market outcomes linked to educational inequalities