Undergraduate students’ in face of their future professional career and family life

The data collected through a questionnaire survey applied to undergraduate students illustrate that male students have better perspectives of integration in the labour market and concerning their professional careers than female students. In a context of labour market crisis, the survey results show that young women are more likely than their male counterparts to limit their family projects due to their poor labour perspectives. Young women are also the ones displaying more egalitarian values and attitudes, and the ones that are more progressive in relation to gender roles in both professional and family lives. Furthermore, the results confirm that students tend to value work organization practices and human resources management policies that are family friendly. Nonetheless, the study shows that young women give more relevance to such policies and practices than their male counterparts.

undergraduate students, career aspirations, work-family balance, gender roles

A informação recolhida através de um inquérito por questionário aplicado a jovens universitários/as permitiu verificar que os jovens universitários têm melhores perspetivas em relação à inserção laboral e à carreira profissional do que as jovens universitárias. No contexto de crise laboral, foram mais as jovens mulheres, contrariamente aos seus colegas do sexo masculino, a condicionar os seus projetos familiares devido às fracas perspetivas de inserção laboral. São ainda as jovens que apresentam os valores e as atitudes mais igualitárias e progressistas relativamente aos papéis de género na vida profissional e familiar. Relativamente à questão da articulação entre o domínio profissional e o laboral, são valorizadas práticas de organização do trabalho e políticas de gestão dos recursos humanos amigas das famílias. Contudo, são as jovens mulheres quem mais confere relevância às mesmas.

estudantes universitários/as, aspirações profissionais, articulação trabalho-família, papéis de género

Les jeunes universitaires face à la future vie professionnelle et familiale: la marque du genre

L’information recueillie à travers une enquête par questionnaire auprès des étudiant-e-s de l’enseignement supérieur ont démontré que ce sont les étudiants, plutôt que les jeunes étudiantes, qui ont de meilleures perspectives de s’intégrer sur le marché de travail et d’avoir accès à une carrière professionnelle. Par ailleurs, dans un contexte de crise du marché de travail, les jeunes étudiantes sont plus susceptibles de limiter leurs projets familiaux en fonction de leurs mauvaises perspectives d’emploi. De surcroit, elles affichent des valeurs et des comportements beaucoup plus égalitaires, ainsi qu’une disposition plus progressiste sur les rôles liés au genre, dans leurs vies professionnelles et familiales. En ce qui concerne l’organisation du plan professionnel, les deux sexes ont tous tendance à valoriser pratiques d’organisation du travail et politiques de gestion des ressources humaines favorables à la famille, même si elles accordent plus d’importance à ces pratiques.

étudiant(e)s de l’enseignement supérieur, aspirations professionnelles, équilibre travail-famille, rôles liés au genre