Las Primeras alumnas en los estudios de bachillerato en Canarias = The first students in secondary schooling in Canarias

Abstract

In the nineteenth century women who wanted to study school had many difficulties in accessing schools. Because the school was seen as part of the training was to receive the ruling minority, but it does not include women because it was conceived as a masculine space. Educational level at first did not consider the presence of women, although there was no express prohibition preventing their access, it was understood that it was not proper for women. Hence the shortage of female students and the low number of students who obtained the title of high school graduates. Canaries, Spanish province northwest of the African coast, suffered the consequences of remoteness from the metropolis fact reflected especially in the economic and educational limitations in the absence of schools. But these circumstances were not the occasion for some women to have an interest in having access to high school and overcome obstacles to achieve it.