Education Act - Argentina

Ley federal de education, No 24.195, 1993

This is the first Argentinian law that uses non-sexist language. In article 5 it states that the National State shall fix the lines of educational policy with the aim of, inter alia, realising concrete equality of opportunities for all inhabitants and refusing any kind of discrimination and surmounting of any discriminatory stereotype in educational material. (Article 5, f) and n).

Article 6 of the law guarantees both man and women a permanent and integral education aimed at personal fulfillment in cultural, social, aesthetical, ethical and religious dimensions.

Article 8 states that the educational system shall guarantee all inhabitants of Argentina the effective exercise of their right to learn, through equality of opportunities and of possibilities and without any sort of discrimination.