As a framework for understanding social change, Budgeon (2014) highlights how biological gender variations are transformed into salient constructs through the primacy of a social binary that distinguished between ‘man’ and ‘woman’, and that this constructed binary underpins many social changes.
Shifts and changes in job opportunities available to young man and women can be understood through applications of this gendered framework. Over time, the cultural current has shifted such that past gender constraints now have minimal influence upon the types of jobs available to young men and women. Through Beck and Beck-Gernsheim’s Individualisation Thesis (cited in Woodman, & Wyn, 2015), these new choices can be explained by the weakening influence
Shifts and changes in job opportunities available to young man and women can be understood through applications of this gendered framework. Over time, the cultural current has shifted such that past gender constraints now have minimal influence upon the types of jobs available to young men and women. Through Beck and Beck-Gernsheim’s Individualisation Thesis (cited in Woodman, & Wyn, 2015), these new choices can be explained by the weakening influence