Girls-Only Trade Classes are Becoming More Popular - and They're Upending Gender Stereotypes [psmag.com]

Alicia Doktor 7/23/184:00 AM

This story was produced in collaboration with the Hechinger Report.

High school auto mechanics teacher Kristina Carlevatti knows what it's like to be one of just a few females in a class. That was her frequent experience while earning a degree in technical and trade education at the State University of New York–Oswego.

"There was the sense that you were being judged, like you didn't know what you were doing, so the guys might try to help you or hit on you," she says.

Carlevatti has been teaching auto repair for six years now at Myers Park High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, where a booming automotive industry has produced plenty of jobs. Boys dominated the shop courses until Carlevatti started an all-girls Intro to Auto class this past school year.

[For more on this story by BRENDA IASEVOLI, go to https://psmag.com/education/gi...g-gender-stereotypes]

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