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[xmca] Re: RSF Bulletin: New Research on the Gender Gap in Education

   Of potential interest.
Mike

On Thursday, March 21, 2013, Russell Sage Foundation wrote:

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> The RSF Bulletin features the latest news and updates about the
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>   *New Research on the Gender Gap in Education*    *The Rise of Women:
> The Growing Gender Gap in Education and What It Means for American Schools<http://app.streamsend.com/c/18254179/3529/4s8cGMQ/NA3C?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.russellsage.org%2Fpublications%2Frise-women%3Futm_source%3Dstreamsend%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_content%3D18254179%26utm_campaign%3DRSF%252520Bulletin%25253A%252520New%252520Research%252520on%252520the%252520Gender%252520Gap%252520in%252520Education>
> *
>
> In *The Rise of Women*<http://app.streamsend.com/c/18254179/3531/4s8cGMQ/NA3C?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.russellsage.org%2Fpublications%2Frise-women%3Futm_source%3Dstreamsend%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_content%3D18254179%26utm_campaign%3DRSF%252520Bulletin%25253A%252520New%252520Research%252520on%252520the%252520Gender%252520Gap%252520in%252520Education>,
> a recently published RSF book, sociologists Thomas A. DiPrete and Claudia
> Buchmann provide the first comprehensive look at the role societal shifts,
> parental influence, peer groups and school environments have played in
> women's growing dominance in education -- and why men have fallen behind.
> Among their findings:
>
>    - The reversal in the educational gender gap has been dramatic. In
>    1970, 58 percent of U.S. college students were men, but by 2010, 57 percent
>    of U.S. college students were women. Women now also earn more PhDs and far
>    more master's degrees than men.
>
>    - Despite women's rapid gains in education, gender segregation
>    persists: Women are overrepresented in the humanities and some of the
>    social sciences, but they are still underrepresented in physical science
>    and engineering. At the undergraduate level, gender segregation in fields
>    of study has remained stable for two decades, while at the PhD level gender
>    segregation has not changed much in forty years.
>
>    - The gender gap in education emerges early: Elementary school girls
>    generally perform better than boys in reading and about as well as boys in
>    math. An important part of the male disadvantage at schools stems from a
>    deficit in social and behavioral skills. Boys generally do not expend as
>    much effort on academic studies as girls.
>
>    - A strong academic climate, both among friends and at home, can help
>    shrink the gender gap: High-quality schools erode the stereotype among boys
>    that excelling in school is not a "masculine" trait. Similarly, high
>    schools with strong science curricula reduce the prevalence of gender
>    stereotypes concerning science and technology and encourage girls to major
>    in scientific fields.
>
> On our website, you can read the first chapter of *The Rise of Women* for
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> .
>    *Featured Chart*   <http://app.streamsend.com/c/18254179/3537/4s8cGMQ/NA3C?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.russellsage.org%2Fblog%2Frise-women-seven-charts-showing-womens-rapid-gains-educational-achievement%3Futm_source%3Dstreamsend%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_content%3D18254179%26utm_campaign%3DRSF%252520Bulletin%25253A%252520New%252520Research%252520on%252520the%252520Gender%252520Gap%252520in%252520Education>
> *Bachelor Degrees by Race and Gender<http://app.streamsend.com/c/18254179/3539/4s8cGMQ/NA3C?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.russellsage.org%2Fblog%2Frise-women-seven-charts-showing-womens-rapid-gains-educational-achievement%3Futm_source%3Dstreamsend%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_content%3D18254179%26utm_campaign%3DRSF%252520Bulletin%25253A%252520New%252520Research%252520on%252520the%252520Gender%252520Gap%252520in%252520Education>
> *
>
> This chart, taken from *The Rise of Women*, shows important variations in
> degree completion by race and ethnicity. The trend for twenty-six- to
> twenty-eight-year-old blacks and non-Hispanic whites is clearly different.
> The pattern for whites is marked by a reversal of the gender gap; black
> men, however, never led black women in rates of college completion. Click
> here for more<http://app.streamsend.com/c/18254179/3541/4s8cGMQ/NA3C?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.russellsage.org%2Fblog%2Frise-women-seven-charts-showing-womens-rapid-gains-educational-achievement%3Futm_source%3Dstreamsend%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_content%3D18254179%26utm_campaign%3DRSF%252520Bulletin%25253A%252520New%252520Research%252520on%252520the%252520Gender%252520Gap%252520in%252520Education>
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>      *Latest on RSF Online*    *Nonresponse Rates in Social Science
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> *
>
> With the Foundation's support, the National Research Council has developed
> a research agenda to address issues related to the impact on social science
> data of the general decline in survey response by individuals and
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> *
>
> Jane Waldfogel, author of the RSF book, *Britain's War on Poverty<http://app.streamsend.com/c/18254179/3549/4s8cGMQ/NA3C?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.russellsage.org%2Fpublications%2Fbritains-war-poverty%3Futm_source%3Dstreamsend%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_content%3D18254179%26utm_campaign%3DRSF%252520Bulletin%25253A%252520New%252520Research%252520on%252520the%252520Gender%252520Gap%252520in%252520Education>
> *, discusses President Obama's recent pre-K proposal, as well as the
> lessons the U.S. can learn from Great Britain's recent preschool reforms. Read
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