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Title: The Rise of Women: The Growing Gender Gap in Education and What It Means for American Schools

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: (taken from preface)This book is the product of more than a decade of research that began with a hallway conversation in May 2001, when we were both professors at Duke University. Tom's youngest daughter was finishing her first year of middle school. Tom had just come from an ice cream social and ceremony that the superintendent of the Durham County Schools hosted for all the sixth graders who had finished the academic year with perfect report cards. Tom and his wife, Katherine, and lots of other parents took off their lunch hour on a warm May day to watch their kids eat ice cream and to search the glossy program for their child's name on the list of honored students.After ice cream, the students got in line, the superintendent began calling their names, one after another they shook his hand and received a certificate, they filed back back to the waiting area...and the gender imbalance became impossible to ignore. It seemed that two out of every three students in the line were girls. After the event ended and Tom returned to the Sociology Department, he told Claudia about the pattern of gender inequality in academic achievement that was on display at the Durham County Schools ice cream social and about how much it must have broader implications that were worthy of systematic research.

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Authors: Buchmann, Claudia; DiPrete, Thomas A.

Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

Publisher Location: New York

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Gender

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