Item #814
Since 1900, there was only a ~50 year period in which men and women didn’t graduate college at high rates of gender parity
Topic: Patriarchy
Source
Citation: The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap, pp. 134-137
Author(s): Goldin, Katz, Kuziemko
Institution(s):
Link: http://www2.econ.iastate.edu/classes/econ321/orazem/goldin_college.pdf
Nation(s): United States
Year(s): 2006
Source: Primary
Type: Statistical Analysis
Discussion
Other Notes:
The surge of male graduates during this period largely coincided with the Great Depression (in which men lost their jobs and had to do something with themselves) and the years of the GI Bill helped to finance college education for men who had fought in World War II and the Korean War
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