, focusing in the elementary and high school education, due to the main importance of them, as stated in the Federal Constitution … of 1988, where it is stresses the public mandatory supply for the elementary education and the growing role of the … government for high school education. This paper conducts an analytical approach divided in fours items allowing comparisons …

Education differentials by region and by gender among the Brazilian population are quite large. This is partially due …

The gender gap measured by average number of years of schooling for the Brazilian population had favored the male … differences in the proportion of individuals of each sex graduating at the several levels of formal education. The proportion of …