L’enseignement professionnel féminin à l’époque de la modernisation espagnole (1875-1930)

Abstract

This study presents the history of the vocational training of the woman in the schools of arts and crafts and the business schools during the Spanish Restoration (1875-1930). This research tries to produce a social analysis of the system of vocational training understood as a social demand of the woman to be considered as a real professional specialized and a citizen. The particularities of the modernization and of the industrialization at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century opened new opportunities of work for woman, considered so far as an exclusively masculine universe. In this context, the woman of the middle class becomes a student of the schools of arts and trades and the business schools because she was sure that a certificate diploma would modify the political and socio-economic relations imposed by the traditional speech of the woman.

Keywords

• women
• Spanish Restoration
• vocational training
• schools of arts and crafts
• business schools