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Revue française de sociologie
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I.S.B.N.sans
200 pages

p. 49 à 77
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Girls in School in France over the Twentieth Century : Investigating the Claim of a Double Gender-Class Handicap

Marie Duru-bellat Annick Kieffer Catherine Marry

Résumé de l'article

This article presents and analyzes trends in gender and social inequalities at school from the early twentieth century on, in light of developments in state-defined study program “supply” and economic context. It makes use of data from INSEE’s Education, qualification, and career surveys (Formation-Qualification Professionnelle: FQP). Over the twentieth century in France, girls first caught up with boys, then overtook them, in access to lower and upper secondary school (collège and lycée), while segregation by gender for the various study options remained relatively unchanged. The reversal in gender inequality stands in contrast to slighter reductions in social inequality, which remained much greater throughout the period. Meanwhile, the social inequality hierarchy was not much affected, remaining similar for the two sexes, with the children of cadres sharply ahead of all others. Girls of working-class origin were slower to catch up with their male counterparts, but they are well ahead today. Daughters of farmers and small self-employed business persons have benefited most. The claim made in many research studies of a double handicap for girls–gender and social background– is thus confirmed only for the earliest of the co-horts studied.

Plan de l'article

• A historic reversal in gender inequality

— Educational and economic contexts

— Trends in school careers

— Overcoming the “girls take general education programs, boys take vocational ones” opposition

— Incomplete success ?

• Do gender and class inequalities reinforce or compensate for one another ?

— Social and gender inequalities in school careers

— Beyond oppositions between cadres’ and manual workers’ children

— Modeling interactions between gender and socio-occupational category

• RÉFÉRENCES

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