Women's assault on male university degrees; change and continuity in gender discrimination

  • François Graña

Keywords:

university, feminization, “masculine” and “female” disciplines

Abstract

At the beginning of the XX century, female students at universities were absolute minority; at the end of the century they already constituted an overwhelmingly majority in almost all Western Universities. Should we celebrate the end of any sexist discrimination in tertiary education? Enrolment according to disciplinary orientation shows disparities disguised under the overall figure. Two out three students at the public Uruguayan University are women; this has not prevented the persistence of a historic differentiation between “masculine” and “female” disciplines. But it is clear that things changed, and everything suggests an irreversible feminization process of all careers in universities. We will here examine the trends revealed by enrolment figures over the three decades separating the 1974 and 2007 censuses.

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Author Biography

François Graña

Licenciado y Magister en Sociología por la Facultad de Cs. Sociales (UdelaR), Doctorando por la Universidad “Jean Moulin” (Lyon) y la FCS, investigador y docente de la U. de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay. Responsable de la línea de investigación “Constitución y reproducción de los estereotipos de género en el aula” desarrollada en el Area de Educación de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación.

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Published

2012-07-27

How to Cite

Graña, F. (2012). Women’s assault on male university degrees; change and continuity in gender discrimination. Praxis Educativa, 12(12), 77–86. Retrieved from https://cerac.unlpam.edu.ar/index.php/praxis/article/view/462

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Vol. 12 No. 12 (2008): marzo 2008-febrero 2009

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