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In the perspective of a strongly gendered labor market, upstream from which girls’ and boys’ choices of a field of study are quite distinct, this article analyzes the representation of the labor market and trades in children’s illustrated books. This article aims at demonstrating how segregated the vision of the labor market is that children are confronted with in their first years of reading. Professions presented to children are gendered archetypes that even go beyond the reality of the labor market: professions, responsibilities and fields invested by women and by men are even more distinct; segregation, whether horizontal or vertical, is even stronger.