from a gender perspective paulgaard points out that the labour markets of the fishing villages have been highly gendersegregated in terms of the existence of male jobs and female jobs however the new business opportunities have led to the male population of the peripheral areas now working in the service industry in former female jobs that boys and girls are doing the same jobs indicates change because traditional boundaries between women and mens work are being crossed but the fact that young people are still working represents continuity with the past paulgaard when paulgaard refers to continuity with traditions she refers to the expectations of young adults to participate in adult culture thus these fishing villages traditionally have no actual youth culture as described earlier paulgaard concludes that in some of norways peripheral areas school is still foreign a time waster stealing time from young adults who should instead spend their time on what is considered to be real work