The waning influence of ascriptive factors on occupational status has been related to the expansion of higher education systems and economic modernisation. The theory of Effectively Maintained Inequality observes that the horizontal stratification of university degrees is a strategy of social differentiation used mainly by the most advantaged social class to access the occupations that are better valued in the labour market. This article verifies the effectively maintained inequality theory by means of a statistical analysis of selected degrees, differentiated by gender and social class, carried out in a Spanish university during the period of expansion and consolidation of the higher education system. The results confirm the theory, but they are partially conditioned by the vertical stratification that alters the composition by gender of the contingent of students of less advantaged social class, in which women present a greater tendency to choose degrees that are less valued by the market.

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西班牙的高等教育隔离：性别结构和社会背景

归因因素对职业地位的影响减弱与高等教育系统的扩展和经济现代化有关。有效保持不平等的理论认为，大学学位的水平分层是一种社会分化战略，主要由最有优势的社会阶层用来获得在劳动力市场上更有价值的职业。本文通过在扩展和巩固高等教育系统的过程中对西班牙大学进行的按性别和社会阶层区分的所选学位的统计分析，验证了有效维护的不平等理论。结果证实了这一理论，