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- Title
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS FROM SINGLE-SEX AND COEDUCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOLS: DIFFERENCES IN MAJORS AND ATTITUDES AT A CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY.
- Authors
Karpiak, Christie P.; Buchanan, James P.; Hosey, Megan; Smith, Allison
- Abstract
We conducted an archival study at a coeducational Catholic university to test the proposition that single-sex secondary education predicts lasting differences in college majors. Men from single-sex schools were more likely to both declare and graduate in gender-neutral majors than those from coeducational schools. Women from single-sex schools were more likely to declare gender-neutral majors, but were not different from their coeducated peers at graduation. A second study was conducted with a sample of first-year students to examine the correspondence between egalitarian attitudes, single-sex secondary education, and major choice. Egalitarianism was higher in students in nontraditional majors, but did not correspond in expected ways with single-sex education. Men from single-sex schools were less likely to hold egalitarian attitudes about gender roles, whereas women from single-sex and coeducational high schools did not differ in egalitarianism. Taken together, our results raise questions about the potential of single-sex high schools to reduce gender-stratification in professions.
- Subjects
UNITED States; COLLEGE students; SINGLE sex colleges; COEDUCATIONAL schools; STUDENT attitudes; CATHOLIC universities &; colleges; STEREOTYPES; SOCIAL psychology; CURRICULUM
- Publication
Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2007, Vol 31, Issue 3, p282
- ISSN
0361-6843
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1471-6402.2007.00371.x