3.“Degendering of Occupations through Professionalization” Strategy This gender policy strategy examines the separation of occupations and job areas that reflect the duality and polarity of gender models as well as the lower status and lacking professionalization of requirements with a female connotation(Krüger 2003). It analyzes the absence of professionalization structure in female occupations and the power of trade associations, the church and voluntary organizations that are responsible for the design of a training infrastructure and the number and quality of workplaces. A“degendering” of occupations would result from a basic re-definition of their requirements, assessment, pay and structure. The aim is to eradicate the gendering of occupations with respect to the requirements, work design and work conditions and to professionalize women’s occupations. The discovery of social requirements in male occupations and the technical and physical requirements in the female occupations are the first step in degendering(see Krell et.al. 2001). Such a strategy also highlights the grounds for and the legitimation of the separation of occupations into male and female: Neither the attempt to judge a person’s aptitude on the basis of their gender nor the definition of technical occupations without social skills and social occupations without technical skills are acceptable. Only the focus on the individual without consideration of gender can prevent the attribution of gender-specific skills. This strategy questions the basic assumptions on which the gender hierarchy of sectors and occupations are based, since it assumes that no woman is the same as another woman or has certain characteristics that men don’t have, and no man is the same as another man or has certain characteristics that a woman could have. The connotation of man-technology­valuable and woman-social-inferior must be abolished. Benchmarking criteria and professionalization infrastructures should no longer follow gender-specific concepts and constructs but require a different perspective. A fundamental critique of the so­called gender-specific aptitude on which the dual and polar concepts of gender are based must also include the one-dimensionality of occupations that are considered as either technical or social and eliminate the inferiority of women’s occupations. 3. Gender Objectives The basic assumptions of gender theory guide not only strategies but also the definition of objectives. In order to identify inequalities in gender relations and to determine how they can be eliminated, it is necessary to have a clear concept of how gender relations should be. The different gender goals that aren’t based on the traditional gender concepts are discussed and compared below. 20