The Effect Of Gender On Career Choice Of Some Selected Secondary School Students

The Effect Of Gender On Career Choice Of Some Selected Secondary School Students

Abstract

This study aims to determine how gender influences secondary school students’ profession choices in the Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. A guide and data were collected through interviewing participants as part of the research procedure in order to obtain current career causes and trends. The study’s results showed that both sexes in society are impacted by gender differences in students’ post-secondary employment choices. Parents were advised to educate both sexes equally rather than pushing one sex more into the background.

Assumable Contents

first chapter

Introduction

Description of the issue

The study’s objectives

Research problem

Goals of the research

Study’s shortcomings

importance of the research

Term definitions

Two Chapters

Review of the literature

A third chapter

Methodology

Research techniques

instrument for research

In Chapter 4,

Analysis and interpretation of data

Fifth Chapter

Information and conversation

Conclusion and synthesis

Recommendations

Conclusion

Reference

Questionnaire

Chapiter 1

Introduction

History Of The Study

Being male or female is considered gender, according to the sixth edition of the Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (2001). A child is born into the family, a social unit, and is raised there with all of his basic needs met, including exposure to his native tongues. One of the most contentious topics in education is career choice, which is also a non-essential component of daily living. Many parents and educators are interested in this topic and believe that school values should be taken into account while redesigning the curriculum. The shift in the social and economic environment was a step toward learning to adapt to the constantly changing environment as we frequently ran into issues.

Indigenous information education was available to the populace before the spread of western culture and education. This type of education was not spread through the school system. It entails the dissemination of those cultural ideals that the populace once enjoyed. Despite the impact of the colonial masters and the Federal Republic of Nigeria in bringing her citizenship up to date and formal education. Due to gender beliefs or influences on the child (particularly the girl child), there have been instances where a difference exists in the education of male and female children. On the other hand, girls are underrepresented and underprivileged in education.

Unwuegbuzie (2008) noted that it is “very disheartening to note that today a lot of female children are left out of school for flimsy reasons while their male counterparts forge ahead” in a speech titled “towards bridging education imbalance in the school.” To him, an education imbalance was a disparity in the benefits received by male and female peers following the discontinuation of prior schooling. Unwugbuze claims that these women live on the streets and are frequently exposed to life’s dangers, where some of them have given birth. According to Adeting (2009)’s influence article, if this gender-based educational disparity is not addressed, Nigeria would eventually start to have an impact on children’s job choices. The study’s main focus is on how gender affects students’ job decisions. impact of gender on sales given to kids by parents and older people. The school administration and instructors tend to promote the impacts of gender. In the past, it was unusual to see a woman working as a police officer driving a car or even smoking in the neighborhood, but today in Edo State’s Egor Local Government Area, women can be found in almost all professions, including accounting, medicine, engineering, and even shoemaking, to name a few, and are no longer only employed in domestic work.

Additionally, women are thought to execute more simple tasks than men, such as constructing thatches and cutting down trees. Women are also thought to identify more with their mothers, while men are thought to identify more with their fathers. Additionally, according to Iyam (1998), “The academic gap that exists between the genders of children has caused a great deal of anxiety. Less women can be found in leadership roles in the government and non-governmental organizations. This disparity has made it harder for women to compete in fields that men consider theirs because they were “born equally naturally with their male counterparts, the education female is a natural right.” Iyam claims that for a very long time, girls’ education and training have been severely neglected and deprived in N Africa and the majority of poor countries worldwide. at light of the foregoing, it can be said that the study’s goal is to determine how gender influences secondary school students’ profession choices at a few particular schools in the Egor Local Government Area. The neighborhood has a strong commercial, cultural, and ethnic diversity. The study will focus on how culture, parents, traditional beliefs, and other factors affect the education of either sex owing to gender influence. The local government has its offices at ring Road in Benin City, Edo State.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM

Journals, journals, and newspapers have recently been publishing ongoing articles about how women are marginalized in the nation. Many parents would not support their female children enrolling in school or choosing a job in the trades. According to Douglas (2002), parents that are well educated would continually desire to provide their kids with moral and financial support to help them choose the finest professional decision.

OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

The goal of the study is to ascertain how gender influences secondary school students’ job decisions in the Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. The survey will also look at how both boys and girls feel about different academic paths. Parents in the Egor Local Government Area have been noted to have alarming attitudes toward gender discrimination because they believe that women are weaker vessels and men are stronger vessels, which has led them to believe that once a woman marries, she is no longer responsible for supporting her family or her parents. This study is directed on understanding and properly examining the elements causing such acts toward female children in particular when it comes to educating a child among parents, guardians, peers, etc. in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State for such evident reasons.

Study Questions

The investigation would focus on the following issues.

1. Is there a career that only one sex can have?

2. Does a girl’s job path depend in any way on her parents’ educational background?

3. Do kids from educated homes have better and brighter opportunities?

4. What impact does peer pressure have on students’ professional decisions?

5. Does the parents’ socioeconomic status have an impact on their daughters’ education?

Importance Of The Study

The need for this study stems from the fact that many secondary school students are adolescents who behave in accordance with parental rules and regulations when performing their assigned roles and expressing their opinions. Students at this developmental stage require close supervision and counseling in order to meet the demands of life. The study’s significance is geared toward the requirement for the formation of guidance and counseling services to assist students in choosing a career.

Another purpose is to educate parents and teachers about the harmful effects of basing career decisions on gender. It is hoped that it would be significant to curriculum planners in the sense that it will highlight the importance of female education, particularly for those responsible for guidance and counseling in higher education.

Objectives Of The Study

This study examined a number of gender-related professional issues and how they affected secondary school pupils in the Edo State region’s Egor Local Government Area. Ihogbe Secondary School and Akenzuwa Secondary School were chosen for the project’s purposes despite the fact that Egor LGA is home to numerous secondary schools. As a result, the research’s focus is on the students and professors in those institutions. The study is interested in learning if parents’ ages have any appreciable bearing on how they feel about educating their kids according to gender. The impact of illiterate parents on the education of their daughter child, whether tradition or religion dictates that gender should be a dividing line in education. If there are careers that are only open to one sex, a child’s peer group may influence their job choice.

Term Definitions

Having a masculine or female gender

Sex Role: The roles or responsibilities given to distinct sexes or genders

Role stereotypes are standards created by society on the roles that men and women should play. They have persisted for a long time and serve as the foundation for interpersonal relationships.

Career: The potential line of work one pursues

Influence: This is when a child’s behavior is impacted by the pressure of another person or set of circumstances.

Courage: The capacity to seize an opportunity.

Equally beautified: This refers to the distribution of all things that have previously been shared by men and women.