ABSTRACT
The chapters in this collection not only tell us about the current fate of most women during their schooling, and subsequently in the labour market or within the family; they also point to enormous gaps in our knowledge about the processes, ideologies and mechanisms whereby women are schooled for their work in a quite different way from the manner in which men are schooled for their work. In addition some of the chapters make definite policy or strategy recommendations for overcoming at least the most extreme forms of discrimination against women. It would, of course, be foolish to assume that changes in education alone can bring about radical changes in the life-chances and power position of women, given the all-pervasive nature of patriarchal relationships and the central importance of the sexual division of labour to the organization of capitalist societies. But this need not prevent us from trying to alter the schooling of women so that they are less disadvantaged in relation to men than they are at the present time.
