Career: gender profile of youth perception

Abstract

In the article, the author considers a career from the position of gender perception. Career development orientation reflects the active position of the individual and is predetermined by many factors, including the maturity of the individual, motivation for professional development. Career orientation does not depend on the gender of the individual. A career-oriented individual is not subject to circumstances and avoids the stereotyped fulfillment of social roles. But any career-oriented individual is not free from gender stereotypes. The career orientation of young men and women contains a number of directly opposite constants. This is an opportunity for unlimited career growth. Everything is determined only by an active position, subjectivity, but not by gender. This and numerous practices of gender success in a career, regardless of gender. These are the restrictions imposed precisely by gender. In the article, the author presents the results of an empirical study of the ideas of young people and girls about a career, the fields of activity of men and women, the qualities of a successful man and woman in their careers. For comparison, the author cites the results of a focus group. It is concluded that gender issues are becoming more and more leveled, but at the same time, so far it remains in the minds of young people and girls, even in relation to such a neutral concept as a career.