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Gender and Education

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International Studies in Educational Inequality, Theory and Policy

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In looking at gender differences in educational outcomes, it is important to distinguish between three sets of outcomes: (i) educational participation and attainment, that is, how far young women and men go within the educational system; (ii) educational achievement, that is, how well young men and women perform (for example, in terms of grades) at a given level of the educational system; and (iii) field of study, that is, the type of course taken within the educational system.

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Smyth, E. (2007). Gender and Education. In: Teese, R., Lamb, S., Duru-Bellat, M., Helme, S. (eds) International Studies in Educational Inequality, Theory and Policy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5916-2_6

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