Abstract

RODRIGUEZ DE LUQUE, Jesús José. Educational Gender Gaps in Bogotá and the Right to Education. Rev. colomb. educ. [online]. 2025, n.95, a18793.  Epub Apr 01, 2025. ISSN 0120-3916.  https://doi.org/10.17227/rce.num95-18793.

This study has three objectives. Firs, it investigates the size of the gender gaps in mathematics and natural science outcomes across localities and schools in Bogotá. Second, it examines the associations between gender gaps in these areas and indicators of availability, acceptability, and adaptability of the right to education in the city's schools. Third, it explores the independent and gender-specific associations between individual outcomes in these areas and the aforementioned right-to-education indicators. To achieve this, data from the Right to Education Index for Bogotá's public sector and the 2020 Saber 11 exam database were used. Descriptive analyses, linear regressions, and multilevel regressions were performed. The results showed that gender gaps disadvantaging women in the analysed areas are prevalent in almost all localities and schools across Bogotá. Furthermore, the findings indicated that gender gaps in these areas tend to favour women in schools with better conditions of availability, acceptability, and adaptability. However, the multilevel model results demonstrated that the acceptability and availability indicators predict better individual scores in mathematics and natural sciences, and these associations are not moderated by student gender.

Keywords : achievement gaps; gender differences; mathematics achievement; science achievement; exit examinations; right to education.

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