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Titre Être chômeuse, se former et après ? : Des parcours d'insertion au féminin pluriel
Auteur Bernard Fusulier, Lorise Moreau, Marc Zune
Mir@bel Revue Les Politiques sociales
Numéro no 1-2, 2011 Femmes, précarités, résilience
Page 49-67
Résumé anglais Public policy aiming to encourage job-seekers makes professional training the key to employment. Starting from the results of a survey made of 840 job-seekers who have availed themselves of job training partly financed by the Agency of the European Social Fund for Brussels and Wallonia, the writers reveal the difference in social and professional opportunity between women and men. However, the use of statistical categories based on gender and status (e.g. ‘job-seeker'), taken in the abstract, can obscure people's real situations and the conditions of their lives. The authors emphasise the need to see through the standardizing effect this produces. They follow this up by presenting a typology of different experiences of training and employment resulting from the analysis of 21 interviews with women job-seekers who had followed up the opportunities for training set up in line with public policy. These differences show that the categories of ‘job-seeker' and ‘woman' in fact include a wide variety of different situations which need to be understood when framing workable public policies.
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