We investigate whether having an advisor of the same gender is correlated with the productivity of PhD science students … graduates and their advisors from U.S. chemistry departments. We find that students with an advisor of the same gender tend to …-representation of women in science and engineering faculty positions may perpetuate itself through the lower availability of same-gender …

gender gap in higher education. Before the expansion, women had lower higher education rates. The expansion increased the … attainment rates of both men and women but failed to reduce the gender gap. Comparing the scale of expansion across fields of …, thereby raising the gender gap …

This paper studies marriage market effects of the student gender composition for university graduates using German …. Experiencing a higher own-gender share of students during university education reduces overall marriage market opportunities for … women but not for men. Moreover, when students of the own gender are relatively abundant, the probability of having a …