Comparing the gender gap in educational attainment: The impact of emancipatory contexts in 33 cohorts across 33 countries
| Autor: | Margriet van Hek, Maarten H. J. Wolbers, Gerbert Kraaykamp |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Economic growth
Context effect 05 social sciences Multilevel model 050301 education Educational inequality Educational attainment 0506 political science Education Inequality cohesion and modernization Variation (linguistics) Comparative research 050602 political science & public administration Demographic economics Gender gap Sociology Ongelijkheid cohesie en modernisering Comparative education 0503 education |
| Zdroj: | Educational Research and Evaluation, 22, 260-282 Educational Research and Evaluation, 22, 5-6, pp. 260-282 |
| ISSN: | 1380-3611 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13803611.2016.1256222 |
| Popis: | Contains fulltext : 161551.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) Nowadays, women outperform men in educational attainment in many countries. Still, large variation between countries remains. Emancipatory contexts in which individuals are raised might explain these differences in male-female educational attainment, both over time and across countries. This study examines individual and contextual factors that affect educational attainment of men and women for cohorts born between 1950 and 1982 across 33 countries. Possible explanations for differentiation over time and across countries relate to women's labour market participation and an emancipatory normative climate, indicated by degree of religiosity. We employ multilevel models on data (N = 138,498) from 6 waves of the European Social Survey and the US General Social Survey (2002?2012) to test our hypotheses. Results show that a higher level of female labour market participation in early adolescence improves women's performance in education, whereas high levels of religiosity during that phase negatively affect women's educational attainment. 23 p. |
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