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Inequality and education [Feito, R. 2003. Alumnado. At Fernández Palomares, F. (coord.) Sociología de la educación. Pearson, Madrid 333-356]

Inequalities have gone through different phases:

Inequality

Class (capitalist) Most affected: working class

Exclusion

Segregation

Assimilation (and egalitarianism)

Inequalities have been articulated by reason of differences in:

Gender (patriarchal) Most affected: women

Ethnicity (ethnocentrism) Most affected: ethnic minorities

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Egalitarian feminism

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Gender refers to the expectations on social behaviour that is considered appropriate for the members of each sex (Giddens, 1991:765)

Differentiated expectations and socialization at primary socialization

Feminism

Sex vs.

gender

Segregated schoolMixed-sex school

Coeducative school

Glass ceiling Wage gap Double presence Double selection

Gender inequality and education [Meseguer Chanzá, D. and Villar Aguilés, A. Género y educación. At Beltrán, J. y Hernàndez, F.J. Sociología de la educación, McGraw-Hill, Madrid. 155-184]

Third wave (postmodernist and dialogic)

Difference feminism

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More ‘used’ to assume responsibilities in the household

Better development of language (school is specially a language experience)

Tentative explanations of girls better school achievement

Gender inequality and education [Merino, R.; Sala, G. and Troiano, H. 2003 Desigualdades de clase, género y etnia en educación. At Fernández Palomares, F. Sociología de la educación. Pearson, Madrid.357-384]

Service economy

Feminism

Men’s world

However the magnificent growth of the participation of women in education along the XX century, a gendered distribution of students between studies persists

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Co-education, understood as an education that does not establish relations based on domination of one sex over the other, still requires overcoming inequalities at:

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Gender inequality and education [Merino, R.; Sala, G. and Troiano, H. 2003 Desigualdades de clase, género y etnia en educación. At Fernández Palomares, F. Sociología de la educación. Pearson, Madrid.357-384]

Manifest curriculum for being androcentric (stereotypical images, absence of women in science either as active or as the object of study subject).

Hidden curriculum (more attention to children; boys: competitive, creative, aggressive and rebellious; girls: orderly, peaceful, passive and unambitious). To the extent there those who recommended gender separation in order to increase the confidence of the girls in the areas where the boys are protagonists.

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Curtmetratge d'animació Centenari de l'accés de les dones a les universitats espanyoles

Aquest curtmetratge d'animació el va realitzar el Centre Dolors Piera d'Igualtat d'Oportunitats i Promoció de les Dones de la Univeristat de Lleida amb la Florence

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