Biography

Maria Teresa Monteiro is a PhD Student in the Feminist Studies program. Graduated in Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Coimbra and with a master's degree in British Studies from the Autonomous University in Lisbon. At the moment working at the IEFP, I.P. performing coordination tasks at the Qualification Management Center. Her interest focuses on professional training policies and how their implementation reinforces inequalities. It focuses on the Portuguese reality and the gender issues underlying vocational training, especially in the analysis of gender representations and on how they (re)produce models of professional choices, limiting, from the outthen, the best-paid places to the dominant sex.