Difficulties in the schooling of children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina in households supported by women

ABSTRACT

This article analyzes the way in which children and adolescents went through schooling, particularly in single-mother households, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The scarce official information published is reconstructed and compiled, specific cross-check are made through the official microdata base and different documents produced by international organizations, particularly UNICEF, are selected. A quantitative and qualitative (that is, mixed) analysis is combined here, based on the work with the aforementioned sources. It is expected to provide inputs for decision-making while at the same time providing material that contributes to the field of work on school inequality that was generated during the pandemic. The general question guiding this work is to what extent the COVID-19 pandemic will deepen pre-existing marks in the educational system and what is the schooling gap by gender that the pandemic will leave behind.