Divorce, gender role, and higher education expansion.

Autor/in	Tian, Yanfeng
Titel	Divorce, gender role, and higher education expansion.
Quelle	In: Higher education, 32 (1996) 1, S. 1-22Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben 48; Tabellen 5
Sprache	englisch; englische Zusammenfassung
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-1560; 1573-174X
DOI	10.1007/BF00139215
Schlagwörter	Bildungsbeteiligung; Ehescheidung; Frau; Arbeitslosigkeit; Studentenzahl; Internationaler Vergleich; Studentin; Großbritannien; USA
Abstract	This article examines higher education enrollment between 1970 and 1987 in the United Kingdom and the United States. It is guided by a theoretical model contending that educational expansion occurs where people choose education as an adaptation to increased deprivation and uncertainty. By linking the expanded role of women to the expansion of women's participation in higher education, and by using the rising rate of divorce as an indicator of the increased disenfranchisement among women in patriarchal societies this study attempts to uncover the hidden forces behind the recent expansion of women's participation in higher education.... The results show that the divorce rate is positively related to women's enrollment in higher education in the United States. The results also show divergent enrollment patterns between the two sexes regarding the effect of unemployment in both the United States and the United Kingdom. It is argued that gender role expectation is crucial to understanding the different effects of divorce and unemployment on the divergent enrollment patterns of men and women. (DIPF/Abstract übernommen).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	1998_(CD)