Equality of opportunities at spanish universities?: learning from the experience

ABSTRACT: The relationship between women and universities began in Spain little more than a century ago, the moment in which the first female students enrolled on university courses- women who decided to break with the taboos of their era and to accede to this education level. From that moment onwar...

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Autores: García-Lastra, Marta|||0000-0002-4612-387X, Díaz Díaz, Belén|||0000-0001-7421-4085
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/6370
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10902/6370
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:History of women’s education
Universities
Equal opportunities
Gender studies
Spain
Equality plans
Historia de la educación de las mujeres
Universidades
Igualdad de oportunidades
Estudios de género
España
Planes de igualdad
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Sumario:ABSTRACT: The relationship between women and universities began in Spain little more than a century ago, the moment in which the first female students enrolled on university courses- women who decided to break with the taboos of their era and to accede to this education level. From that moment onward, the incorporation of women in the university sphere has been a continual process that has been accompanied, in the last few decades, by measures based on the principle of equal opportunities between men and women. In this article we present a historical review of the presence of women in the Spanish university sphere, and the case of the measures taken by one specific university (the University of Cantabria) in the wake of this principle. We consider that in order to recognize the wide- reaching effect of the arrival of these kinds of actions, it is necessary to know the important process of change undergone in the higher education of women in the last one hundred years.