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ERIC Number: EJ294193
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1983
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Reassessing the Discrimination against Women in Higher Education.
Wilson, Kenneth L.; Shin, Eui Hang
American Educational Research Journal, v20 n4 p529-51 Win 1983
The extent to which the income, power, and prestige potential of college curricula can explain sex composition and male/female attrition rate is examined. Men are disproportionately represented in curricula ranked high on the three stratification dimensions. Those curricula, also have the highest amounts of prejudicial attitudes against women. (Author/DWH)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Equal Education, Females, Higher Education, Income, Majors (Students), Prestige, Sex Bias, Sex Discrimination, Social Bias
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Power