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The Growing Female Advantage in College Completion: The Role of Family Background and Academic Achievement

Buchmann, Claudia, DiPrete, Thomas A.·2006·American Sociological Review
DOI 10.1177/000312240607100401
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In a few short decades, the gender gap in college completion has reversed from favoring men to favoring women. This study, which is the first to assess broadly the causes of the growing female advantage in college completion, considers the impact of family resources as well as gender differences in academic performance and in the pathways to college completion on the rising gender gap. Analyses of General Social Survey data indicate that the female-favorable trend in college completion emerged unevenly by family status of origin to the disadvantage of sons in families with a low-educated or absent father. Additional analyses of National Educational Longitudinal Survey (NELS) data indicate that women's superior academic performance plays a large role in producing the gender gap in college completion, but that this effect remains latent until after the transition to college. For NELS cohorts, who were born in the mid-1970s, the female advantage in college completion remains largest in families with a low-educated or absent father, but currently extends to all family types. In conjunction with women's growing incentives to attain higher education, gender differences in resources related to family background and academic performance largely explain the growing female advantage in college completion.

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Authors
Buchmann, C., & DiPrete, T. A.
Venue
American Sociological Review
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2006-08
Volume
71
Issue
4
Pages
515-541
ISSN
  • 0003-1224 (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-8271
DOI
10.1177/000312240607100401
OpenAlex
W1967651987
Cited by
906
References
3
FWCI
66.95
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)

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