Full Citation

Title: Empowerment and Education: A Historical Study of the Determinants of Global Educational Participation of Women, ca. 1850-2010

Citation Type: Book, Whole

Publication Year: 2016

ISBN:

ISSN:

DOI:

NSFID:

PMCID:

PMID:

Abstract: Women’s participation in education today is unparalleled in history. Part of this is explained by general educational expansion in both richer and poorer countries since the 1950s. At present, some countries even experience a reverse gender gap in higher education.1 Yet, in the majority of the world, the share of women’s educational attainment systematically lags behind that of men, especially in South Asia, the Middle East, and in sub-Saharan Africa (Barro and Lee 2013). Some countries, such as Taiwan, have made incredible progress in the gender equalization of education, while other entire areas, such as West Africa, continue to lag behind in educational participation of women (UNICEF 2005). Why do some countries seem to be well poised to follow educational leaders in closing gender gaps in education, whereas others lag behind in this catch-up? This dissertation sets out to improve our understanding of factors that are relevant for explaining divergences in female education. Gaps in female education are always relative to male education and hence a wider understanding of the basic drivers of education is needed. As such, this research explores how gender equality in education fits within overall educational participation.

Url: https://repository.ubn.ru.nl//bitstream/handle/2066/162181/162181.pdf

User Submitted?: No

Authors: Vleuten, Lotte van der

Publisher: Radboud University

Publisher Location: Nijmegen, Netherlands

Pages: 252

Volume:

Edition:

Data Collections: IPUMS International

Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

Countries: