review: kristin gisbert (2001). geschlecht und studienwahl. biographische analysen geschlechtstypischer und -untypischer bildungswege [gender and the choice of discipline. biographical studies of gender typical and atypical careers]

GISBERT offers an analysis of the biographical factors that lead students to choose either male-dominated or female-dominated university courses. This comprehensive work, which uses a developmental psychological approach, investigates eight individual cases. By means of biographical interviews and additional data collected during the period of study, GISBERT is able to show that identity-shaping factors that determine a gender-specific choice of academic subject are formed at an early age, for example, through certain structures of family interaction. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0201247