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ERIC Number: EJ407772
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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Explaining the Oxbridge Figures.
Davies, Bronwyn; Harre, Rom
Oxford Review of Education, v15 n3 p221-25 1989
Rejects sociobiological theories on female academic achievement and bases findings on social structure to explain why undergraduate women at Oxford University (England) achieve fewer first places and more second places in class honors. Bases theory on bipolarity of gender as an organizing principle of society. Claims that the double bind of social construct restricts female achievement. (NL)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Discrimination, Educational Research, Females, Feminism, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Learning Theories, Nature Nurture Controversy, Sex Discrimination, Sex Stereotypes, Socialization, Womens Studies
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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Identifiers: England; University of Oxford (England)