Abstract

GOMEZ, Sandra; LOPEZ PONS, Magdalena  and  LAN, Diana. Process of Territorial Fragmentation from Gender as an Analytical Category: Access to Education in the City of Tandil. Rev. Univ. geogr. [online]. 2009, vol.18, n.1, pp. 33-61. ISSN 1852-4265.

Transformations are constant in the cities and inequalities are increasingly deeper in living, working, and educational conditions of the people in the world. Our objective is to analyze the current situation of gender education in the city of Tandil, from the inclusion and/or exclusion in the educational system from the analytical category of gender, as well as consumer citizens and non citizens that take part in the production of the land and that present several fragmented educational forms. The persistence of inequalities in the social distribution of education can only be explained taking into account production and reproduction ratios in the capitalist society since the school system directly takes part in the reproduction of the capitalist distribution of work and inequalities. This situation allows us to see the contradictions caused by education through the exclusion process in a medium-size city such as Tandil. Such process clearly shows those that are excluded from the system itself because of territorial accessibility without being admitted at the different compulsory and non-compulsory school ages for the levels analyzed for the city of Tandil. This situation is not alien to the analytical category of gender from which inequalities are seen in access to education between men and women, being the latter in a less favorable situation. A particular case is observed in higher educational levels in which the increase in the number of women has been significant in post-secondary sectors.

Keywords : Territory; Fragmentation; Education; Gender.