ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to the consequences of sex-segregated education, it is not intended to present the issue as one of mixed versus single sex schooling, despite the growing volume of work addressed to that subject. A proposition familiar to most sociologists is the claim that in the process of industrialization schools annexed some of the ‘functions’ of the family, thereby impoverishing the family and creating, amongst other things, conditions of conflict or problematic discontinuities between the home and the school. The question of sex segregation in education is not, however, simply a matter of physical location — of whether there be one or two sexes in the particular building; it is essentially one of curricula differences. Whilst on the subject of role and sex segregation, the possible links with what has come to be called conjugal segregation can be considered.
