La segregación por género en la Formación Profesional (FP). Hallazgos y propuestas a partir de un proceso participativo de diseño de políticas públicas de juventud en Ontinyent, Valencia, España

Vocational Training (VT) is one of the fields on which more debate is currently taking place. It is a training modality expressly linked to the labor market and, therefore, has substantial effects on the professional development of youth. This article aims to offer reflections and proposals that arise from the youth who participated in the research process and in the design of the I Youth Plan of Ontinyent (Valen -  cia, Spain). Specifically, Vocational Training is presented from a gender and youth perspective, with a participatory approach that allows reflection, debate, deliberation and bottom-up design of strategic axes for the execution of public policies . Based on the consensus on the existence of a current scenario with a clear gender segregation in VT, three force ideas are put into relation on which, from a qualitative fra - mework, the causes, effects and possible proposals that should be programmed to reverse this problem. These force ideas are: stigmatization of VT, gender segregation in VT based on professional families, and formative orientation processes. In short, an investigation is presented that addresses new emerging trends in this field, while trying to contribute to valuing VT, resituting the debate from a gender perspective and, in addition, making visible the potential of participatory processes within the framework. of youth public policy design.