Young Women Face Disadvantage to Enrollment in University STEM Coursework Regardless of Prior Achievement and Attitudes

Autor/inn/en	Marsh, Herbert W.; Van Zanden, Brooke; Parker, Philip D.; Guo, Jiesi; Conigrave, James; Seaton, Marjorie
Titel	Young Women Face Disadvantage to Enrollment in University STEM Coursework Regardless of Prior Achievement and Attitudes
Quelle	In: American Educational Research Journal, 56 (2019) 5, S.1629-1680 (52 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Marsh, Herbert W.) ORCID (Parker, Philip D.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0002-8312
DOI	10.3102/0002831218824111
Schlagwörter	Females; STEM Education; Course Selection (Students); High School Students; College Students; Gender Differences; Academic Achievement; Enrollment; Biological Sciences; Physical Sciences; Foreign Countries; Longitudinal Studies; Surveys; Student Attitudes; Self Efficacy; Australia; Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; STEM; Course selection; Student; Students; Kurswahl; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Collegestudent; Geschlechterkonflikt; Schulleistung; Einschulung; Abwasserbiologie; Natural sciences; Naturwissenschaften; Naturwissenschaft; Ausland; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Schülerverhalten; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Australien
Abstract	We evaluated STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) coursework selection by women and men (representative longitudinal sample, 10,370 Australians) in senior high school and university, controlling achievement and expectancy-value variables. A near-zero total effect of gender on high school STEM enrollment reflected pathways favoring boys through achievement and expectancy-value variables, but a counteracting direct effect of gender favoring girls. In contrast, subsequent university STEM enrollment favored boys. In both high school and university, enrollments favored girls in life sciences and boys in physical sciences, but at university there was a leaky pipeline in which girls who qualified to pursue physical sciences opted for non-STEM subjects. Qualitative analysis not only supported quantitative results but also highlighted alternative mechanisms of STEM engagement/disengagement, and mostly supported gender similarities rather than differences. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01