Pauline Schoenmaeckers's research while affiliated with University of Liège and other places

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This paper presents a study conducted in Federation Wallonia-Brussels to identify factors that motivate men to enrol in training programmes and work in a field where women are in majority, in a context in which few proactive measures are taken to overcome gender stereotypes. ‘Comprehensive interviews’ (Kaufmann 2007) conducted with male childcare ‘...

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... Working with young children conflicts with societal notions of acceptable masculine behaviour (Moosa & Bhana, 2020). While high intrinsic motivation characterizes many men's decisions to enter the profession (Kedar et al., 2021;Pirard et al., 2015), societal pressures often lead to their exiting the field favouring a more gender appropriate vocation (Plaisir et al., 2021). ...