Gender gaps in education: The long view1

Many countries remain far from achieving gender equality in the classroom. Using data from 126 countries, we characterize the evolution of gender gaps in low- and middle-income countries between 1960 and 2010. We document five facts. First, women are more educated today than 50 years ago in every co...

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Autores principales:	Evans David K., Akmal Maryam, Jakiela Pamela
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Publicado:	Sciendo 2021
Materias:	education inequality gender economic development i21 i24 j16 o1 Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration JV1-9480 City population. Including children in cities, immigration HT201-221
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:4d90758800fb4f8fa92e69f02fb20fa12021-12-05T14:11:07ZGender gaps in education: The long view12520-178610.2478/izajodm-2021-0001https://doaj.org/article/4d90758800fb4f8fa92e69f02fb20fa12021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.2478/izajodm-2021-0001https://doaj.org/toc/2520-1786Many countries remain far from achieving gender equality in the classroom. Using data from 126 countries, we characterize the evolution of gender gaps in low- and middle-income countries between 1960 and 2010. We document five facts. First, women are more educated today than 50 years ago in every country in the world. Second, they remain less educated than men in the vast majority of countries. Third, in many countries with low levels of education for both men and women in 1960, gender gaps widened as more boys went to school, then narrowed as girls enrolled; thus, gender gaps got worse before they got better. Fourth, gender gaps rarely persist in countries where boys attain high levels of education. Most countries with large, current gender gaps in educational attainment have low levels of male educational attainment, and many also perform poorly on other measures of development such as life expectancy and GDP per capita. Fifth, in the youngest cohorts, women have more education than men in some regions of the world. Although gender gaps in educational attainment are diminishing in most countries, the empirical evidence does not support the hypothesis that reducing the gender gap in schooling consistently leads to smaller gender gaps in labor force participation.Evans David K.Akmal MaryamJakiela PamelaSciendoarticleeducationinequalitygendereconomic developmenti21i24j16o1Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migrationJV1-9480City population. Including children in cities, immigrationHT201-221ENIZA Journal of Development and Migration, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1095-1151 (2021)
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spellingShingle	education inequality gender economic development i21 i24 j16 o1 Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration JV1-9480 City population. Including children in cities, immigration HT201-221 Evans David K. Akmal Maryam Jakiela Pamela Gender gaps in education: The long view1
description	Many countries remain far from achieving gender equality in the classroom. Using data from 126 countries, we characterize the evolution of gender gaps in low- and middle-income countries between 1960 and 2010. We document five facts. First, women are more educated today than 50 years ago in every country in the world. Second, they remain less educated than men in the vast majority of countries. Third, in many countries with low levels of education for both men and women in 1960, gender gaps widened as more boys went to school, then narrowed as girls enrolled; thus, gender gaps got worse before they got better. Fourth, gender gaps rarely persist in countries where boys attain high levels of education. Most countries with large, current gender gaps in educational attainment have low levels of male educational attainment, and many also perform poorly on other measures of development such as life expectancy and GDP per capita. Fifth, in the youngest cohorts, women have more education than men in some regions of the world. Although gender gaps in educational attainment are diminishing in most countries, the empirical evidence does not support the hypothesis that reducing the gender gap in schooling consistently leads to smaller gender gaps in labor force participation.
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Gender gaps in education: The long view1

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