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Ahlburg, Dennis A.; McCall, Brian P. – History of Education, 2021
This paper uses a newly discovered data set on examination results by gender from 1913 to 1986 to show that the gender gap in examinations at the University of Oxford has existed for over a century. We show that after declining for almost 70 years the gender gap in Firsts increased significantly after the introduction of coresidence -- the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Gender Differences, Scores, Foreign Countries