Differential treatment of sons and daughters by parents is a potential explanation of the gender gap in education in developing countries. This study empirically tests this explanation for India using household survey data collected in urban Uttar Pradesh in 1995. We estimate educational enrolment ...
In particular, it is responsible for the reversal of the returns to schooling ranking in recent years and it may explain up to 44% of the gender wage gap of the top education group (Master and PhD) in 2005. Since prejudice is still important, policy interventions may be effective in ...
OSLO, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- Norway's gender gap in education is widening as in many Norwegian municipalities the proportion of highly educated women is more than twice as large as that of men, the country's statistics bureau said on Tuesday. For both men and women, there has been a stead...
Gender Wage Gap and Education: Case in Dominican Republic In Latin America and the Caribbean women are paid less than men, although they have more years of education. This research analyzes the case of the Dominican Republic and presents evidences of the gender wage gap using regression analysi....
The gender gap in educational expectations among youth in the foster care system[J] . Chris Michael Kirk,Rhonda K. Lewis,Kyrah Brown,Corinne Nilsen,Deltha Q. Colvin.Children and Youth Services Review . 2012 (9)Kirk, C. M., Lewis, R. K., Brown, K., Nilsen, C., & Col- vin, D....
BEIJING, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- The gender gap in the nine-year compulsory education has been basically eliminated, said a white paper published by the State Council Information Office Thursday. The net primary school enrollment rates of boys and girls were both 99.9 percent in 2017, according ...
gender gap 释义 noun Women have closed the gender gap in education in recent years. Progress on equal pay has slowed and the gender gap has widened again. Motivational factors may widen or narrow the gender gap in students' academic performance. ...
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The study examines various education indicators, school enrolment and dropout rates. There is no doubt that the gender gap still exists in Lesotho in favour of females. Both the cohort analysis and the analysis of dropout rates have shown that there is gender imbalance in schooling. In addition...
raising awareness about the New Gender Gap, a term used to describe the steady decline in boys’ performance in schools across the nation. This trend has been reported by the Department of Education for over a decade and as recently as 2004 in the DOE report:Trends in Equity of Girls and...