
What accounts for this enormous reversal in the gender education gap? In The Rise of Women: The Growing Gender Gap in Education and What It Means for American Schools, Thomas DiPrete and Claudia Buchmann provide a detailed and accessible account of women’s educational advantage and suggest new strategies to improve schooling outcomes for both boys and girls. Women now outperform men academically at all levels of school, and are more likely to obtain college degrees and enroll in graduate school. While powerful gender inequalities remain in American society, women have made substantial gains and now largely surpass men in one crucial arena: education. Winner of the 2015 Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Outstanding Book Award Presented by the American Sociological Association's Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Winner of the 2015 Otis Dudley Duncan Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Social Demography Request for Articles - Three Decades since "Making Ends Meet": What We Know about How Single-Mother Families Survive Today.Request for Articles - The Deportation System and Its Aftermath.Improving Education and Reducing Inequality in the United States.

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