Loading...
Please wait, while we are loading the content...
Similar Documents
Representations of leadership within a gender perspective among secondary school students Rappresentazioni della leadership presso gli studenti della scuola secondaria in una prospettiva di genere
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Luppi, Elena |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | This work focuses on the analysis of the attitudes of young people towards leadership with a view to gender, with the aim of investigating some cultur al implicits that can influence the future choices of students and which, pre cisely for this reason, must be taken into consideration in the educational field. In particular we decided to focus our attention on two dimensions that affect the construction of the image of leadership and which can con stitute both obstacles and driving forces in promoting female participation. On one hand we tried to analyse the stereotypes of leadership with a view to gender, and on the other hand we looked into the awareness that young girls and boys have concerning female participation in the labour market. We were particularly interested in understanding if and to what extent the construction of the image of leadership with a view to gender could be in fluenced by stereotypes and prejudices that lie behind the segregation mechanisms that lead to the glass ceiling phenomenon. Here we present the results of a survey which involved an initial explorative qualitative phase and a later stage of quantitative investigation involving al most 1900 students enrolled in the last year of secondary school in Italy (in the provinces of Bologna and Rimini). These young males and females were delivered a multi-purpose questionnaire including a series of questions on the image of leadership with a view to gender, among perceptions, experi ences and future projections. Questo lavoro si concentra sull’analisi in una prospettiva di genere degli at teggiamenti dei giovani nei confronti della leadership, allo scopo di investi gare alcuni impliciti culturali che possono influenzare le scelte future degli studenti e che, precisamente per questa ragione, devono essere prese in considerazione nel campo educativo. In particolare, abbiamo deciso di fo calizzare l’attenzione su due dimensioni che influenzano la costruzione dell’immagine della leadership e che possono costituire sia ostacoli che forze motrici nel promuovere la partecipazione femminile. Da un lato, ab biamo condotto un’analisi sugli stereotipi della leadership in chiave di genere; dall’altro lato abbiamo osservato la consapevolezza che i giovani e le giovani hanno riguardo alla partecipazione femminile al mercato del la voro. Ci siamo dedicati in special modo a capire se e fino a che punto la |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://ojs.pensamultimedia.it/index.php/siref/article/download/459/442 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
