Graduates' opium? Cultural values, religiosity and gender segregation by field of study

Zuazu-Bermejo, Izaskun

doi:10.3390/socsci9080135

Artikel / Aufsatz Mi., 29. Juli. 2020 CC BY 4.0

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Graduates' opium? Cultural values, religiosity and gender segregation by field of study

This paper studies the relationship between cultural values and gender distribution across fields of study in higher education. I compute national, field and subfield-level gender segregation indices for a panel dataset of 26 OECD countries for 1998–2012. This panel dataset expands the focus of previous macro-level research by exploiting data on gender segregation in specific subfields of study. Fixed-effects estimates associate higher country-level religiosity with lower gender segregation in higher education. These models crucially control for potential segregation factors, such as labor market and educational institutions, and gender gaps in both self-beliefs and academic performance in math among young people.

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Datum der Veröffentlichung:

29.07.2020

DOI:

10.3390/socsci9080135

URN:

urn:nbn:de:hbz:464-20210119-163211-9

Sprache:

Englisch

Ressourcentyp:

Text

Schlagwörter:

horizontal gender segregation; higher education; cultural values; religiosity; math beliefs; association index

Kollektion:

E-Publikationen

Sachgruppen der Deutschen Nationalbibliographie:

300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie

Einrichtung:

Fakultät für Gesellschaftswissenschaften, Institut für Sozioökonomie (IfSO)

Förderung:

The publication of this article was supported by the Publication Fund of the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Informationen zur Erstveröffentlichung:

Zuazu-Bermejo, I.: Graduates’ Opium? Cultural Values, Religiosity and Gender Segregation by Field of Study. Soc. Sci. 2020, 9, 135; doi: 10.3390/socsci9080135

Published: 29 July 2020

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