Women's Colleges and Women Achievers: An Update.

Rice, Joy K.; Hemmings, Annette

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Women's Colleges and Women Achievers: An Update.

Rice, Joy K.; Hemmings, Annette

Signs, v13 n3 p546-59 Spr 1988

Replicating and updating M. Elizabeth Tidball's 1973 study, this study of 1,307 women achievers corroborates earlier findings that women's colleges produce proportionately more high female achievers than do coeducational schools. Factors that may have contributed to this are discussed. (BJV)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Comparative Analysis, Employed Women, Females, Feminism, High Achievement, Single Sex Colleges, Womens Education

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