TY - JOUR
T1 - Shifting gender effects
T2 - Opportunity structures, institutionalized mass schooling, and cross-national achievement in mathematics
AU - Wiseman, Alexander W.
AU - Baker, David P.
AU - Catherine Riegle-Crumb, Riegle-Crumb
AU - Ramirez, Francisco O.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Prior research shows that stratification of future adult opportunities influences stratification in the academic performance of students. This perspective is used to generate hypotheses regarding the sources of cross-national gender differences in mathematics performance. These hypotheses are tested using multivariate and multilevel analyses of adult opportunities for women and cross-national differences in mathematics performance by gender. This future opportunity perspective is expanded to take into account the historical incorporation of women in modern nation-states through institutionalized mass schooling emphasizing egalitarian ideals. Results indicate a cross-national shift in the direction of less gender inequality in overall school mathematics performance. However, gender inequality is more evident in the advanced 12th grade mathematics. The results of a more specialized analysis of the advanced 12th grade mathematics are compared with the earlier findings regarding mathematics performance.
AB - Prior research shows that stratification of future adult opportunities influences stratification in the academic performance of students. This perspective is used to generate hypotheses regarding the sources of cross-national gender differences in mathematics performance. These hypotheses are tested using multivariate and multilevel analyses of adult opportunities for women and cross-national differences in mathematics performance by gender. This future opportunity perspective is expanded to take into account the historical incorporation of women in modern nation-states through institutionalized mass schooling emphasizing egalitarian ideals. Results indicate a cross-national shift in the direction of less gender inequality in overall school mathematics performance. However, gender inequality is more evident in the advanced 12th grade mathematics. The results of a more specialized analysis of the advanced 12th grade mathematics are compared with the earlier findings regarding mathematics performance.
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U2 - 10.1108/s1479-3679(2009)0000010015
DO - 10.1108/s1479-3679(2009)0000010015
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79956170167
SN - 1479-3679
VL - 10
SP - 395
EP - 422
JO - International Perspectives on Education and Society
JF - International Perspectives on Education and Society
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