Ethnicity And Gender Affects Job Opportunities

It is not only your expertise that decides whether you get the job after graduation. Informal skills, ethnicity and gender also has much to say on the labor market, according to social scientist Julia Orapabo.

The doctoral dissertation "Expertise - a symbolic marker. Gender, ethnicity and aspirations in the transition between education and work, "she claims that ethnic and gender ranking of competence influences students' aspirations and choices when they enter the working world.

Orupabo interviewed 36 nurses, laboratory technicians and computer technologists of both genders and different ethnicities - both while they were undergoing training and one year after completing his studies.

Although the majority of those I followed got a job, was there a difference in how interesting jobs they did, she says to Your Money.

If you want your dream job as it is important to master an ethnic our country people, according Orupabo. For nurses and computer engineers is more important to have characteristics that students perceived as masculine.

Even bioengineers who had moved to our country as adults ended up getting up relevant job after graduation. But labor was usually easier than ethnic our country people had the opportunity to perform.

More adult immigrants also said they experienced much exclusion during their studies. That they did not participate in the example group made sure they were very pessimistic, according Orupabo.

Both female and male nursing students with different ethnic backgrounds wanted to work in a hospital rather than a nursing home. It turned out, however, that only ethnic our country nurses who ended up getting a job at the hospital.

The findings of Orupabos research confirms earlier studies showing that sex acts as a central factor for exclusion in some gender-segregated education and professions.