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Clase social, género y desigualdad de oportunidades educativas

2007; Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport; Issue: 342 Linguagem: Inglês

0034-8082

José Saturnino Martínez García,

Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

Social class, gender and inequality of educational opportunities This paper focuses on the relationship between social class, gender and inequality of educational opportunities (IEO), based on data collected from the Survey on Labour Force over several years (1977-2004). During that period, the IEO is more or less constant for males, but it decreases in the case of females.This finding is difficult to explain by means of educational policies given that the comprehensive reform in Spain (LGE and LOGSE) doesn't affect the IEO.When grants decrease in the 90's, the IEO falls slightly for men and radically for women;