ABSTRACT

This article explores the position of rural women in Irish society during the period 1930–1960, focusing on their engagement with vocational education. Irish vocational education was organised and delivered in a way that was in keeping with a wider gendered ideology as represented in the policy discourse with gender-segregated training, the promotion of traditional domestic roles and a lack of a vision underpinning vocational training that would disrupt traditional gender roles. Rural women and girls did not directly contest this ideology but did push boundaries against the roles that were ascribed to them. This article builds on existing work in the field. Previous studies focused on curricular options and employment success rates of secondary educated girls compared with those who attended vocational education. This study extends that research through its specific focus on vocational education for rural girls, their attendance at day and evening classes and their employment opportunities.

摘要

本文探讨了 1930-1960 年间农村妇女在爱尔兰社会中的地位，重点关注她们对职业教育的参与。爱尔兰职业教育的组织和实施方式符合更广泛的性别意识形态，如性别隔离培训政策论述中所代表的，促进传统的家庭角色以及缺乏支持职业培训的愿景，这将破坏传统性别角色。农村妇女和女孩并没有直接反对这种意识形态，但确实打破了赋予她们的角色的界限。本文建立在该领域现有工作的基础上。以前的研究侧重于与接受职业教育的女孩相比，中等教育女孩的课程选择和就业成功率。