Las Titulaciones De La Facultad De Educación De La Universidad De La Laguna, Un Análsis Desde La Perspetiva De Género

Abstract

Throughout history, there have been periods in which education was restricted to women. This was seen through the generalization of public instruction (Moyano Law, 1857), when it began to require more women to educate their own sex. One of the significant effect it has was that education became a form of integration of women in the economic sphere and, therefore, outside the borders of reproductive life. It became one of the main career opportunities for women, who until then had been excluded from the professional world, becoming “their first massive professional occupation” (San Román, 1997). Historically, and currently, Early Childhood Education is a labor area occupied mainly by women. This fact has its origin in the numerous conditioning factors: historical, social, cultural, economic, and political. However, we started from the observation that the teaching profession has become a predominantly female activity. This paper focuses on analyzing different factors of feminization that allow us to understand the causes for which the studies of child teaching at the University of La Laguna were carried out mainly by women.