The incorporation of women into the Secondary Public Education in Extremadura (1900-1936)

Abstract

In this article we pretend to offer an approximation about the incorporation of women to secondary studies in the high schools of Caceres and Badajoz, known as historic high schools of Extremadura, in the first of the 20th century. Mainly, the principle point of interest has been the knowledge of the evolution that the incorporation of women to secondary education has experimented and the causes that made good or bad to its development. In Extremadura, the evolution of secondary education was marked by the socioeconomic development of the region, that showed a very peculiar characteristics and that were decisive for the social, cultural and economic structure of it. However these circumstances didn’t avoid the access of women to high studies.

Keywords

• mujeres
• educación secundaria
• siglo xx
• extremadura.