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Nov 8, 2021 · The growing gender gap in higher education – both in enrollment and graduation rates – has been a topic of conversation and debate in recent months. Young women are more likely to be enrolled in college today than young men, and among those ages 25 and older, women are more likely than men to have a four-year college degree.
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Women have gained ground in the nation’s highest-paying...
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Oct 12, 2022 · By 2020, that number had risen to 41 percent for women but only to 32 percent for men — a nine percentage–point gap, now going the other way. That means there are currently 1.6 million more ...
Jun 11, 2024 · Among the 146 economies covered in the 2024 index, the Health and Survival gender gap has closed by 96%, the Educational Attainment gap by 94.9%, the Economic Participation and Opportunity gap by 60.5%, and the Political Empowerment gap by 22.5%. Since 2006, subindexes have shifted at different paces, based on the constant sample of 101 countries.
Nov 23, 2016 · Introduction. Women have improved their educational attainment considerably compared to men since the 1960s. A large number of studies show that women nowadays have surpassed men in educational attainment in most Western societies (Buchmann & DiPrete, Citation 2006; Buchmann, DiPrete, & McDaniel, Citation 2008; Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD], Citation 2012).
- Margriet van Hek, Gerbert Kraaykamp, Maarten H. J. Wolbers
- 2016
Sep 22, 2021 · 2021-09-22. In recent decades, women’s educational attainment has increased significantly in Canada. In 2016, 40.7% of young women aged 25 to 34 reported having a bachelor's degree or higher, up from 32.8% in 2006. By comparison, 29.1% of young men aged 25 to 34 reported having a bachelor's degree or higher, up from 24.8% in 2006.
The substantial gender gap in educational attainment for recent cohorts of men and women cannot be explained by differences in observable parental investments, measurable skills, or behaviors that may reflect skills, even in rich data such as that provided by the Add Health Study and even in a relatively homogeneous sample of young adults.
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Oct 8, 2021 · Education gaps across the lifecycle. So far, we have focused on the most recent cohorts. But the gender gap wasn’t always this dramatic (or even in this direction). Figure 4 shows the portion of ...
