Formación profesional y desigualdad de oportunidades educativas por clase

Abstract

After a review of sociological reflections about the vocational training and its relation to socioeconomic background and gender, and translating them into educational policy debates in Spain, the article analyses the rates of vocational training students or graduates at 19 and 20 years old according to social class background and gender, from those born in 1957 until 1992. During this period, the inequality of opportunities in access to vocational training has remained fairly constant in social class, but the inequality based on gender has decreased from people born in 1961, but more so for those born after 1970. The data show that the reform introduced by the LOGSE, which increased the academic requirements to study vocational training, had as a consequence that the probability of being enrolled in vocational training decreased in all social classes, particularly in working class rather than other social groups. On the other hand, women coming from middle class choose less vocational training than expected according their gender and social class