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Calkins, Avery; Binder, Ariel J.; Shaat, Dana; Timpe, Brenden – RAND Corporation, 2020
We leverage variation in the timing of women's colleges' transitions to coeducation throughout the 1960s-2000s to study how exposure to a gendered social environment affects women's human capital investments. Applying event study and synthetic control analyses to newly collected historical data, we find that the share of women majoring in STEM at…
Descriptors: Single Sex Colleges, Coeducation, Majors (Students), Females
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Hee Sun Park; Ezgi Ulusoy; Hye Eun Lee; Mikyoung Kim – SAGE Open, 2024
By looking at the relationship between workplace culture and gender identity, this research examines ways to potentially improve women's satisfaction and perceptions of female workers in this presently disadvantageous work environment in Korea. Drawing from previous criticism for having prioritized inter-group processes over particular social…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Womens Education, Work Environment, Work Attitudes
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Ahlburg, Dennis A.; McCall, Brian P. – History of Education, 2020
This paper examines the impacts of co-residence (admitting women to men's colleges and men to women's colleges) at the University of Oxford beginning in the 1970s. Co-residence increased the representation of women undergraduates at Oxford to near parity with men; the representation of women in academic positions rose but not as substantially as…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Universities, Undergraduate Students, Females
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Trolian, Teniell L.; Jach, Elizabeth A.; Ogren, Christine A.; Hanson, Jana M. – Research in Higher Education, 2018
This study considers how institutional histories of admitting women are associated with present college experiences, and uses data from the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education to compare the experiences of women at women's colleges or former women's colleges to those of women at former men's colleges and colleges that have always been…
Descriptors: Womens Education, College Admission, Student Experience, Institutional Characteristics