Do Gender Inequalities Matter in Different Levels of Education?

Marta Santagata and Enrico Ivaldi ()

Journal of Social Economics, 2016, vol. 3, issue 4, 156-169

Abstract: Gender inequality is more pronounced in some aspects of the educational system than in others. This paper investigates different levels of education in twenty Italian regions: we built an additive index for females and males and a general one, and then, comparing the ranks for each region, we looked for differences and similarities in the ranks. We have two different aims: 1) building an index of education for males and one for females (relative to 2014) and observe and discuss ranking in order to analyse whether the best performing regions are the same for both sexes or well-performing regions for one sex are not also well-performing for the other sex; 2) building an index for both sexes together to observe how Italian regions are distributed and to analyse best-performing and worst-performing regions. The main conclusion is that inequality exists, but the level of inequalities is quite small, there is not a huge gender gap and there is not one sex that is always at a disadvantage with respect to the other. Finally, we found regional differences to be the most striking differences to observe.

Date: 2016
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