Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) has published research showing the types of jobs adolescents aged 14-15 years aspire to are consistent with gender stereotypes and gendered selection of school subjects. Although both genders were attracted to similar industries such as science, planning and architecture, boys were much more likely to aspire to engineering, transport, information communications technology, or trade and technical jobs, with girls preferring roles in education, the law, social professions such as counsellors or personal services such as beauticians. Read more about the findings.
