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http://www.jstor.org/stable/43189418
An article written by Marianne Bertrand and Jessica Pan which focuses on the factors at home and in
schools that explain the gap in disruptive behavior between boys and girls. The article finds the
largest determinant of noncognitive gaps result from the home environment, particularly for boys
who are disproportionately affected by broken homes.
The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.20.4.133
An article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives by Claudia Goldin, Lawrence Katz and Ilyana
Kuziemko that looks to explain the closure of the college enrollment gap between men and women
during the 1970’s. The paper concludes that increased focus in the sciences, higher job expectations
and changes in marriage age, all contributed to eliminate the gap.
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Gender and Educational Achievement
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131881.2014.898908
This editorial describes a study done in Switzerland and Germany that looks for the root causes of
differences in achievement in the classroom between boys and girls, including perceptions in the
classroom, teacher perceptions and cultural imagery.
The Myth That Schools Shortchange Girls: Social Science in the Service of Deception
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228586458_The_Myth_That_Schools_Shortchange_Girls_
Social_Science_in_the_Service_of_Deception
This article refutes the popular findings of the 1992 paper "How Schools Shortchange Girls" by
critically examining research and government statistics that show at best no advantage to a distinct
disadvantage for boys. The report speculates that there was more of a political, than scientific basis
for the arguments made in the paper.
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Table 303.70 Total undergraduate fall enrollment in degree-granting postsecondary institutions, by
attendance status, sex of student, and control and level of institution: Selected years, 1970 through
2027
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d17/tables/dt17_303.70.asp?current=yes#
NCES data table that gives statistics breaking down college enrollment by gender and race for 2016.
Women Still Paid Less Than Men: Oregon’s Gender Pay Gap
https://www.ocpp.org/2016/04/11/fs20160411-oregon-gender-pay-gap-women/
Chart examining the pay differential in Oregon of women versus men dependent upon various
degrees earned.
Regulating Opportunity: Title IX and the Birth of Gender-Conscious Higher Education Policy
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278322804_Regulating_Opportunity_Title_IX_and_the_Bi
rth_of_Gender-Conscious_Higher_Education_Policy
An article that chronicles the evolutionary origin of the focus on sex discrimination during the college
admissions process and the subsequent impact Title IX had on the end of discriminatory policies
towards women at the university level.
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How to Make Schools Better for Boys
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/09/how-to-make-school-better-for-
boys/279635/
A follow up article by Christina Hoff Sommers written 13 years after her 2000 book on the War
Against Boys. Sommers gives an update on the still difficult situation for boys as well as some
suggestions as to how to improve the outcome for boys.
Men and Things, Women and People: A Meta-Analysis of Sex Differences in Interests
http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2009-19763-004
This is a statistical study that analyzes preferences amongst gender when looking at occupational
choices. It is a heavy statistical approach to determine why some occupations are weighted towards
males or females.
Incarceration in the U.S. costs more than $1 trillion a year, Washington University study claims
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/incarceration-in-the-u-s-costs-more-than-
trillion-a/article_070eecea-42c1-5258-a508-062079e9b333.html
A newspaper article in the St. Louis Dispatch that quotes extensively from a Washington University
report looking at the societal costs to the nearly 2 mm people currently incarcerated in the US. The
article is one sided and the study itself was prepared by an advocacy group for prison reform, so there
is certainly bias.
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The AAUW Report: How Schools Shortchange Girls, An Executive Summary
https://www.aauw.org/files/2013/02/how-schools-shortchange-girls-executive-summary.pdf
A research report commissioned by the American Association of University Women and released by
Wellesley College that determined how schools systemically discriminated against girls in how they
were taught, what they were taught and what they were not taught.