ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the evolution of Colombia's education structure during the first half of the twentieth century from a gender side. It presents the main features of Colombia's economic context. The chapter describes the evolution of educational participation by gender by knowledge level. It also presents an analysis of the knowledge transmission between genders based on the curricula of each school and by education level. In educational issues, both genders were affected because after the Civil War, many schools disappeared, thus increasing the number of abandoned students. The educational supply during the first half of the century faced challenges concerning coverage and quality, despite the government's efforts to consolidate education's institutional structure with reforms such as those enacted in 1903. Women stood out in the formation of the Normal School, intended to prepare primary school teachers, and the School of Commerce, where they received office training reflective of a period of peak industrial growth in Colombia.
