CAPTION: Most trainees learn their profession in small and medium-sized businesses. Men opt mostly for technical professions. (picture alliance/dpa Themendienst/archive)
Women choose nursing, men opt for mechatronic engineering: According to a new study, gender-specific job profiles still dominate when it comes to vocational training.
The KfW Banking Group's SME panel carried out a special evaluation at the beginning of the new training year. It showed that female apprentices in the construction and manufacturing sectors are still comparatively rare, accounting for 14 and 27 percent respectively. On the other hand, they are found with above-average frequency in the service sector.
Overall, the vast majority (around 90 percent) of the approximately 1.32 million trainees are learning their profession in small and medium-sized businesses. For the 2018 training year, KfW expects a slight increase, of around 1 percent, in the number of apprentices being trained in SMEs.
"However, the current moderate increase is likely to be temporary due to the long term trend, which sees a declining number of children attending school and an increasing tendency to study," said KfW Chief Economist Jörg Zeuner.
According to the study, women still prefer professions in the service and commercial sectors to technical jobs. One in four female apprentices are training to be a medical assistant or office management clerk. Women often complete their training in very small companies, which are particularly widespread in the service sector.
The result is that male apprentices earn more on average because they undertake training in industries that pay better. According to the data, one in five male apprentices train to become mechatronics engineers, industrial mechanics or electronics engineers.
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