YES - Baroness Margaret Prosser, chair of the Women and Work Commission
If you talk to young people about the work placements they get sent on it is clear they are gender specific. Boys get sent to car workshops; girls get sent to care homes, or supermarkets. It is taken that these are girls' jobs and these are boys' jobs - the idea is aim low to avoid disappointment.
Girls tend to suffer from peer pressure. Boys do as well, of course, but girls tend to stick together and take what they see as safe decisions, going into childcare, that sort of thing. But no-one explains to them that in five years' time they will be earning less than half the amount of their male colleagues.
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