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Explaining the Gender Gap in STEM Attainment: Factors from Primary School to STEM Degree Completion. EdWorkingPaper No. 19-42
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Katherine A. Key; Tim R. Sass – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2019
We investigate the determinants of high school completion and college attendance, the likelihood of taking science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) courses in the first year of college and the probability of earning a degree in a STEM field. The focus is on women, who tend to be under-represented in STEM fields. Tracking four cohorts of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Educational Attainment, Elementary Schools, Time to Degree
Is it Really a Man's World? Black Men in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
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Lundy-Wagner, Valerie C. – Journal of Negro Education, 2013
Efforts to improve the Black science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) pipeline have focused on historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs); however, this work generally fails to acknowledge men. This article characterized Black male receipts of bachelor's degrees from HBCUs in STEM fields between 1981 and 2009 using a…
Descriptors: African American Students, Black Colleges, Males, Gender Bias
Addressing Gender Imbalance in Nigeria's Higher Education through Institutional Framework
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Okeke, Emeka Paul – African Higher Education Review, 2013
This paper examined the gender imbalance among students in Nigeria's higher education and the possible ways to addressing them. The poor access of female gender to higher education in Nigeria has become a thing of great concern to all stakeholders such as School authorities, Government, International agencies and employers of labor. The paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Gender Differences, Gender Issues
Reframing Schools to Enhance Gender Access--Making the World a Better Place
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Gentry, Ruben; Buck, Jessica L. – Online Submission, 2010
With whom does the American education system get high grades? For race and ethnicity, disparities are ever so prevalent. For socioeconomic status and family income, poor people never seem to get a fair share. For geographical location, inner city students are almost always underserved. Perhaps the one entity on which the system can boast is…
Descriptors: Females, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, Educational Improvement
The Illinois Class of 2002 and Gender: A Descriptive Summary Four Years after High School. Policy Research: IERC 2009-3
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Brown, Kathleen Sullivan; Mullin, Christopher M.; White, Bradford R. – Illinois Education Research Council, 2009
This longitudinal study focuses on a new generation. Members of the high school class of 2002 were born in the years 1983 and 1984. In order to situate their lives in historical context, it is helpful to think back to some of the major events in the lives of these young Illinois citizens. This analysis of the cohort of 2002 provides leaders of…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Institutional Characteristics, Equal Education, Females
"Girls Tend to Stop Going; Boys Get Told Not to Come Back": A Report on Gender and the Dropout Problem in Colorado Schools
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Bennett, Laurie J.; Mac Iver, Martha Abele – Colorado Children's Campaign, 2009
Dropping out of school--and the concomitant failure to graduate with a high school diploma--form a "silent epidemic" in the United States today. "Nationally, research puts the graduation rate between 68 and 71 percent, which means that almost one-third of all public high school students in America fail to graduate" or drop out…
Descriptors: Females, Dropouts, Males, High School Graduates