About selective devices in Education: the fact of sexism

Abstract

Fifty years ago a key issue started to be researched systematically: educational institutions are not neutral, on the contrary, they discriminate in order to social class or other characteristics in relation to belonging to certain human groups. Several years later, educational woman discrimination began to be analyzed, focusing in their lower attainment. Last decades this kind of discrimination has been over in many countries, and women have got even higher educational levels. Does this mean that gender discrimination has disappeared?

This paper discusses this possibility, and it shows the different ways in which educational gender discrimination continues taking place nowadays. This discrimination marks women negatively, but not in educational attainment, but in their work trajectories and in their public and private lives.