Drawing on data from a sample of approximately 17,000 male and female students that represent 200 institutions, The Gender Gap in College examines the impact of college experiences, peer groups, and faculty on a comprehensive array of student outcomes. Author Linda Sax’s approach is unique because she directly examines the interaction between gender and a variety of college experiences, a major inquiry which addresses the fundamental “individualization” question: do women and men respond differently to a given educational experience? The areas covered in the book include academic achievement, self-concept, life goals, career development, physical and emotional health, political and social attitudes, and satisfaction with college.
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“Sax is the first to examine the issue of gender difference in college in a systemic, comprehensive fashion. Her purpose is to analyze whether college impacts gender differences.
Sax generates new research questions to provide insights into how the college-going experience for men and women can be improved. She offers implications concerning financial circumstances, connection to family, student-faculty interactions, the presence of women faculty, academic engagement, academic self-confidence, health and well-being, impact of diversity programming, and careers and majors.
… A must read for researchers, practitioners, faculty, and students.”
—Choice Magazine, Vol. 46, No. 11 (August 2009)
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The Gender Gap in College
After four generations of legislation efforts, affirmative action laws, and consciousness raising—are women in college faring better today?
The Gender Gap in College is a pioneering book that reveals the ways in which the effect of college is a function of a student's gender and places the study of college impact within the larger discussion of the gender gap in higher education. The book is designed to serve as a resource for student affairs professionals, academic affairs personnel, and other campus practitioners and policy makers who are most concerned with ways in which "college impact" varies for different types of students.
Drawing on data from a sample of approximately 17,000 male and female students that represent 200 institutions, The Gender Gap in College examines the impact of college experiences, peer groups, and faculty on a comprehensive array of student outcomes. Author Linda Sax's approach is unique because she directly examines the interaction between gender and a variety of college experiences, a major inquiry which addresses the fundamental "individualization" question: do women and men respond differently to a given educational experience?
The areas covered in the book include academic achievement, self-concept, life goals, career development, physical and emotional
health, political and social attitudes, and satisfaction with college.
Remarkably, more than half of the 584 different "college effects" that are identified in the book are proven to be not the same for women and men. The Gender Gap in College makes it clear that we can no longer assume that women and men are affected in the same way by the undergraduate experience. This remarkable book points the way for more research on the topic for fuller understanding of women's and men's college experiences.
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Informative Scholarship on Women College Students,
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This review is from: The Gender Gap in College: Maximizing the Developmental Potential of Women and Men (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education) (Hardcover)
Women have earned more college degrees than men since 1982, yet women trail their male counterparts on many important indicators, such as academic self confidence, emotional health, and participation in athletics. Sax carefully documents these and other noteworthy trends using a rich source of data on college freshmen. She also carefully explores the impact of the college experience on young men and women. Sax makes every effort to make this excellent research accessible to the general public, but also provides enough detail to be informative to educators, college advisors, and scholars interested in education and gender. This book deserves of a wide audience for those interested in the experiences of women college students and those interested in understanding how the world is changing. For the complete version of this review, see the journal Gender & Society.
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This book provides critical insight into a fascinating piece of the gender puzzle: how postsecondary environments and experiences affect women's and men's development. The data and analyses are impressive, and presented in a helpful and clear format; the beauty of the book is the immediate and direct applicability to policies and practices in education (and even in the workplace - industry would be served well by having a sharper understanding of interaction effects). I am finding that this is my new go-to reference for work on gender and higher education! These data are absolutely key to thinking about ways in which our institutions both reproduce and transform gender inequities.
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This review is from: The Gender Gap in College: Maximizing the Developmental Potential of Women and Men (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education) (Hardcover)
This book provides important research and insights on issues of gender and education in a way that, while serving up lots of data for researcher and academic types to chew on, is also very accessible for practitioners, campus professionals, and general interest readers.
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gender role traditionalism, classic liberalism, social diversity experiences, weighted national figures, general faculty support, among entering college students, precollege variables, feeling that faculty, partying behaviors, involvement with faculty, campus practitioners, college impact, unique predictors, math confidence, faculty outside class, scholarly confidence, mathematical confidence, promoting racial understanding, scholar personality, degree aspirations, campus practice, challenging professors, week socializing, campus personnel, role traditionalism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Major Major, Women Men Variable, Freshman Survey, Residence Major, Women Peer, Major Enrolled, Men Public, Baxter Magolda, Men Women, Women Men Diff, College-Level Predictors of Personality, Feeling Overwhelmed, Percentage Reporting, Major Involvement, Major Hours, Cooperative Institutional Research Program, Artist Personality, Hoff Sommers, College-Level Predictors of Self-Change, Career Sex-Atypicality, Major Attended, United States, Women Major, Status Striver Personality, Finances Major Browse Sample Pages:
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gender role traditionalism, classic liberalism, social diversity experiences, weighted national figures, general faculty support, among entering college students, precollege variables, feeling that faculty, partying behaviors, involvement with faculty, campus practitioners, college impact, unique predictors, math confidence, faculty outside class, scholarly confidence, mathematical confidence, promoting racial understanding, scholar personality, degree aspirations, campus practice, challenging professors, week socializing, campus personnel, role traditionalism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Major Major, Women Men Variable, Freshman Survey, Residence Major, Women Peer, Major Enrolled, Men Public, Baxter Magolda, Men Women, Women Men Diff, College-Level Predictors of Personality, Feeling Overwhelmed, Percentage Reporting, Major Involvement, Major Hours, Cooperative Institutional Research Program, Artist Personality, Hoff Sommers, College-Level Predictors of Self-Change, Career Sex-Atypicality, Major Attended, United States, Women Major, Status Striver Personality, Finances Major Browse Sample Pages:
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