... only Professional identity Male preservice teachers Early childhood education (ECE) Teacher education China The gender disparity in the early childhood education (ECE) workforce has long been a subject of academic and policy discourse, underscoring the overwhelming dominance of women...

... articulated by counsellors create an association between a collective professional identity and the social identities of typical practitioners, making this profession appear most suitable for middle-aged, middle-class women. The findings also show how certain embodied identities – in this case masculinity...

...Olivia Kyriakidou; Olivia Kyriakidou Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to build and enrich theory around professional identity construction by investigating the development of professional identity under conditions of marginalized gender identity. Professional identity is defined by Ibarra...