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Gender Inequality and Higher Education
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The authors reviewed a diverse literature on gender and higher education and found that women fare relatively well in the area of access, less well in terms of the college experience, and are particularly disadvantaged with respect to the outcomes of schooling.Abstract:
This paper reviews a diverse literature on gender and higher education. Gender inequality is more pronounced in some aspects of the educational systems than in others. The analysis distinguishes 1) access to higher education; 2) college experiences; and 3) postcollegiate outcomes. Women fare relatively well in the area of access, less well in terms of the college experience, and are particularly disadvantaged with respect to the outcomes of schooling. Explanations of gender inequality in higher education should distinguish between these different aspects of education and should explain those contexts in which women have attained parity as well as those in which they continue to lag behind men.read more
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Cumulative Advantage as a Mechanism for Inequality: A Review of Theoretical and Empirical Developments
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Racial and Ethnic Stratification in Educational Achievement and Attainment
Grace Kao,Jennifer S. Thompson +1 more
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Cultural Capital, Gender, and School Success: The Role of Habitus
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The Growing Female Advantage in College Completion: The Role of Family Background and Academic Achievement:
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Gender inequalities in education.
TL;DR: The authors reviewed the empirical research and theoretical perspectives on gender inequalities in educational performance and attainment from early childhood to young adulthood and recommended three directions for future research: (a) interdisciplinary efforts to understand gender differences in cognitive development and noncognitive abilities in early childhood, (b) research on the structure and practices of schooling, and (c) analyses of how gender differences might amplify other kinds of inequalities, such as racial, ethnic, class, or nativity inequalities.
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HIERARCHIES, JOBS, BODIES: A Theory of Gendered Organizations
TL;DR: The authors argues that organizational structure is not gender neutral; on the contrary, assumptions about gender underlie the documents and contracts used to construct organizations and to provide the commonsense ground for theorizing about them.
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The American occupational structure
Peter M. Blau,Otis Dudley Duncan +1 more
TL;DR: The American Occupational Structure is renowned for its pioneering methods of statistical analysis as well as for its far-reaching conclusions about social stratification and occupational mobility in the United States.
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How college affects students
TL;DR: In 1992, How College Affects Students The Journal of Higher Education: Vol 63, No 3, pp 355-358 as mentioned in this paper, the authors presented a survey of how college affects students.