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Title: The Effect of Title IX on Gender Inequality in Graduate Education

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2017

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ISSN: 1556-5068

DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3020765

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Abstract: This paper examines whether Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which banned sex discrimination in admissions, was successful in reducing gender disparity in graduate education. I find a sharp convergence of female and male graduate-degree fields coincident with Title IX's passage. This distributional change occurred as women moved into male-dominated fields and does not seem to be driven by gender-specific preferences. Alternative explanations including the end of the Vietnam War Draft, increased access to the pill, abortion legalization, changing female attitudes, and the strengthening of anti-discrimination labor laws are also considered but do not explain the discontinuity.

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Authors: Rim, Nayoung

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Gender

Countries: United States