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The Rise of Women : The Growing Gender Gap in Education and What it Means for American Schools /
While powerful gender inequalities remain in American society, women have made substantial gains and have largely surpassed men in one crucial arena: education. By the early twenty-first century, women have come to outperform men academically at all levels of school, and are more likely to obtain co...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Russell Sage Foundation,
[2013]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Trends and the macro environment. What has happened? : Describing the reversal of the gender gap in college completion ; Changing incentives and opportunities for higher education
- Academic performance, engagement, and family influence. The gender gap in academic performance ; Social and behavioral skills and school-related attitudes ; The family and the gender gap
- The role of schools. Schools, classrooms, and peers ; Gender, college major, and postgraduate education ; Enhancing educational attainment
- Appendix A : Figures and tables.