The EOC's investigation into occupational segregation, 'No More Jobs for the Boys or Jobs for the Girls', will focus on modern apprenticeships in five sectors: childcare, construction, plumbing, engineering and ICT. It wants to hear from men and women about their experiences of training or working in a sector dominated by the opposite sex.
Men still account for 99 per cent of modern apprenticeships in construction and 96 per cent in engineering, while 97 per cent of childcare apprentices are women, according to the EOC.
Julie Mellor, chair of the EOC, said the training and career choices young people have to make are difficult, but she added, 'This can be made even tougher if they come up against other people's stereotypical ideas about what sort of work they should do.
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