La educación femenina en el sistema educativo español (1857-2007)

Abstract

This article seeks to highlight the slow process of education that women suffered due to the constraints of history. The study begins with the Public Education Act (1857) when the enrollment of girls in primary education becomes binding, and continuing achievements in education, through educational initiatives arising outside the school, from the Revolutionary Six-years period (1868-1874) to the Dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera (1923-1930). From the mid-30’s special attention is given to education in order to show two opposing schools models for women: the common school, public, secular pursued by the Second Republic and the national school, catholic and patriotic developed under Franco. After this last stage, the story gives way to the democratic school that allows female enrollment at all levels, and in equal opportunities. And the study concludes with a brief analysis of the education laws that were developed in subsequent years (1983-2006) to check the representation of women in the educational system.