Career Guidance Free of Gender Stereotypes
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The session examines how gender stereotypes keep girls out of IT despite 96,000 open IT jobs in Germany and only 17% female IT professionals. It focuses on school-based career guidance for digitalization-related occupations and presents concrete measures from Hacker School, nationwide competitions, the Hessian Ministry of Education, and HWR Berlin to create stereotype-free orientation and recruit more young women into IT.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Gender stereotypes in IT
- 2:05Introduction
- 8:01School career guidance
- 11:17Teachers' gender competence
- 15:08Bias-free guidance
- 17:55Girls' competitions
- 22:50Teacher training
- 27:24Equality report recommendations
- 30:58Computer science in schools
- 38:25Parents in guidance
- 41:39Girls in digital careers
- 43:05Summary
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