Reproductive rights. Education and employment: the dividing line.
Newsl Womens Glob Netw Reprod Rights
; (36): 54-5, 1991.
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PIP: In Argentina, the 1884 Public Education Law gave women access to education. According to the 1980 Census there is a 6% illiteracy rate for women, which is slightly higher than for men, (5.5%), but this advantage is reversed in the female 10-35 age group. Girls and boys attend primary and secondary schools with the same frequency, but boys are more likely to repeat grades or drop out. At the university level 46% of the total students are women, and in Buenos Aires the figure is 56%. Many university subjects that were once considered for men only (medicine, law, and architecture) are now being studied by women. In 1941 only 25% of women studied science, chemistry, pharmacy, biochemistry, and dentistry; by 1978 that figure had grown to 59%. Now equal numbers of men and women study medicine, law, and architecture. Education plays a determining role in the number of children a woman has or if she gets married. Among 20-24 year old women with a low level of education, 51% live with a partner. For middle-class women the figure is 31%, and for university-educated women the figure is 15%. Uneducated women have about 4 children, while university-educated women have 1 child each. 50% of university-educated women do not have children. Discrimination in the job market against women is often associated with their menstruation, pregnancies, or child care. However, this prejudice is based on the false assumption that women must have and raise children. It ignores the shared responsibility of raising children between men and women. Before the 1980s the typical female worker was a single woman 25. When she got married she would quit her job. Today women are staying in the work place either out of choice or necessity even if they have children.^ieng
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Americas; Argentina; Behavior; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; Education; Educational Status; Family And Household; Family Characteristics; Family Relationships; Female Role; Fertility; Fertility Measurements; Human Resources; Labor Force--women; Latin America; Literacy--men; Literacy--women; Mothers; Parents; Parity; Population; Population Dynamics; Primary Schools; School Enrollment; Schools; Secondary Schools; Social Behavior; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; South America; Universities
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Paridade
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Instituições Acadêmicas
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Estudantes
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Universidades
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Escolaridade
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Emprego
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Mães
Tipo de estudo:
Health_economic_evaluation
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Risk_factors_studies
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
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Equity_inequality
País/Região como assunto:
America do sul
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Argentina
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Newsl Womens Glob Netw Reprod Rights
Ano de publicação:
1991
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de publicação:
Holanda