Boosting gender equality in science and technology - A challenge for TVET programmes and careers

A related technical and vocational education and training differentiation in wage and wage growth between the STEM (TVET) has a potentially significant role to play in providing workforce and the total workforce in Europe is also evident, the skills and competencies required to support innovation, and shows the relatively high demand for professionals in the productivity and international competit. [...] achievement and progression to STEM-related occupations y Girls and women leave STEM disciplines in disproportionate y I dentify areas of successful practice in increasing the numbers during their higher education studies, in their participation and performance of girls and women in STEM- transition to the world of work and even during their career related TVET, and initiatives to improve the part. [...] women in STEM-related occupations y Make recommendations for policy and for future research in What does the report aim to do? this area While much of the focus to date has been on the participation Defining TVET and STEM-related TVET of girls and women in school and university STEM education, there has been relatively little attention paid to the Coming to a universal definition of STEM-related T. [...] The barriers and facilitators affecting female participation and performance in STEM-related TVET In the Cracking the Code report, focus was placed on the In the sections that follow, the key messages of the different participation and performance of girls and women in STEM levels of the analytical framework will be considered for TVET, education in general. [...] In the wider Specific examples of family and peer influence on the sense community, people speak of a family of teachers, a family of belonging of girls in STEM-related TVET are evident in the of doctors, etc.