Projects
Projects FNS
PNR 60 Professional aspirations and orientations of girls and boys towards the end of compulsory school: what determinants for more equality? Financed by the National Research Programme "Gender Equality" (NRP 60) of the SNF
2010 - 2013 (36 mois)
Applicant : Dominique Joye
Other partners : Jacques-Antoine Gauthier, Lavinia Gianettoni, Carolilna Carvalho Arruda, Dinah Gross, Edith Guilley, Elisabeth Isaeiva Moubarak Nahra, Karin Müller
In Switzerland, the professional aspirations of girls and boys are still gender related: they are oriented according to the idea that there are male and female occupations. This research project is based on a survey among pupils in secondary schools, their parents and their teachers, and on semi-structured interviews with careers guidance counsellors and other professionals of occupational orientation. The aim is to determine the different causes of these differences - which contribute to the (re)production of gender inequalities - in order to better identify effective tools to prevent it.
Our main hypothesis is that institutional - social capital and the education system, for example - along with psychosocial factors work together in the reproduction of sexual roles and identities, and contribute, in turn, to the « sexual division of occupational orientation ».
Life transitions in context: Towards an integrated methodological framework for studying the impact of critical events (NCCR LIVES - IP15)
2011 - 2014 (48 mois)
Applicant : Dominique Joye
Other partners : Peter Farago, Caroline Roberts, Erika Antal, Guy Elcheroth, Jacques-Antoine Gauthier, Lavinia Gianettoni, Eva Green, Jean-Marie Le Goff, Marlène Sapin
This project emphasizes the importance of temporal and social context to study the critical events and inequalities with a strong methodological component in terms of expertise and innovation that also apply to the other projects.
