Denmark has some of the world’s highest education and employment rates for women, but at the same time also a very horizontal gender-segregated labor market, that is, most women work in different occupations than most men. Thus, many of the highly educated Danish women work in professions, which have been ...
(Show more)Denmark has some of the world’s highest education and employment rates for women, but at the same time also a very horizontal gender-segregated labor market, that is, most women work in different occupations than most men. Thus, many of the highly educated Danish women work in professions, which have been and are dominated by women for an example as nurses, midwives or pre-school teachers.
In my presentation, I zoom in on one of the biggest female dominated profession, namely the pre-school teachers’ profession and education in the period 1989-2022. In this time-period the education to pre-school teacher become Denmark’s largest education and undergoes a continuously academization process. At the same time, the education struggle with the lowest funding per student and a continuously criticism for not having a sufficient academic level. The pre-school teachers also remain the lowest paid profession with that length of higher education.
In my presentation, I give an overview over why and how the profession and it’s education has been academized and by extension, which goals and ideals the different actors have had in supporting this development. Through a gendered perspective I also ask why both the education and the profession continuous to struggle with low status and low funding and pay.
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