Gendered itineraries in basic vocational training findings of a study in valencian high schools

Abstract

The aim of the article is to analyse the Basic Vocational Training in order to better un-derstand the significant segregation by sex that the data show, both in their access and in the specialties studied, based on the analysis of educational statistics. This analysis is comple-mented by the use of qualitative methodology through semi-structured interviews with 35 BVT students from five Valencian educational centres, an autonomous region with an im-portant implementation of BVT. Theoretically, we start from Acker's (1990) consideration of educational institutions as organizations with a gender mark that contribute to building hegemonic models of masculinity and femininity (Connell, 2001). The findings show the robustness of gender stereotypes are still identified that persist what we call gendered itiner-aries, which have an impact on educational decisions and future job transitions.