NYAKA TO BEANGERE Marie-Jeanne

Graduate of Advanced Studies in Psychology

Doctoral thesis presented and publicly defended with a view to obtaining the Grade of Doctor of Psychology.

Promoter

TINGU YARA NZOLAMESO, Full Professor

Co-promoters

MBADU KHONDE, Full Professor
MUSA ALOKPO, Professor

SUMMARY

The educational and professional orientations of girls and boys have remained differentiated and unchanging for several decades. However, since
In a few years, we have seen girls opting for courses of study with a “masculine” connotation.
and boys towards “feminine” courses of study, in other words, towards non-traditional courses of study.
The study aims to identify the motivations behind this “non-traditional” choice of studies, with the main objective of making stereotypes visible and
the psycho-social mechanisms by which gender inequalities are constructed and ultimately result in the career choices of girls and boys.
The study is conducted on a weighted stratified random sample of 272 subjects including 157 girls enrolled in so-called “male” establishments and 115 boys enrolled in so-called “female” establishments. To verify the hypotheses and meet the objective of our study, we combined the two approaches, quantitative and qualitative.

For quantitative data collection, we used the Lickert scale-inspired rating scale. For data processing, we used Pearson's CHI-SQUARE statistical test. For qualitative data collection, we opted for semi-structured interviews, and for processing, we used content analysis.
We have reached the following results: the motives for choosing non-traditional study courses revealed by our research are as follows: the feeling of personal effectiveness and identification with the social model, the support of parents and teachers. We have reached the conclusion that part of their choices and tastes are based on the reproduction of stereotypes and that in matters of orientation and career, there is no determinism.
“House will only succeed in profoundly changing things if domestic tasks are better distributed between men and women.”