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Mavrinac, Marilyn – Harvard Educational Review, 1997
In the 1920s and the 1960s-1970s, educational reform movements in France attempted to democratize elitist selection for higher education. School restructuring was influenced by issues of class but not gender. Today, gender equity in schools remains hampered by the patriarchal nature of the educational bureaucracy. (SK)
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Coeducation, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education