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- Title
CHANGES IN WOMEN'S MAJORS FROM ENTRANCE TO GRADUATION AT WOMEN'S AND COEDUCATIONAL COLLEGES.
- Authors
Solnick, Sara J.
- Abstract
Using data on the anticipated and final majors of 1700 students at eight women's colleges and 818 female students at seven coed colleges, the author tests whether women at single-sex institutions were more likely than their counterparts at coed schools to remain in traditionally male-dominated subjects and whether they were more likely to shift from traditionally female-dominated subjects. Depending on how broadly "female-dominated majors" is defined, 40% to 75% of women at women's colleges who began in such majors shifted to neutral or male-dominated fields during their college careers, compared to only about 25% of women at coed schools. Approximately 22% of women at both types of school left male-dominated majors.
- Subjects
WOMEN'S colleges; COEDUCATIONAL schools; HIGHER education; SINGLE sex colleges; WOMEN'S education
- Publication
ILR Review, 1995, Vol 48, Issue 3, p505
- ISSN
0019-7939
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/001979399504800309