Goldin, Claudia; Kuziemko, Ilyana; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2006
Women are currently the majority of U.S. college students and of those receiving a bachelor's degree, but were 39 … understand the narrowing of the gender gap in college and its reversal. From 1972 to 1992 high school girls narrowed the gap with … first marriage for college graduate women rose by 2.5 years in the 1970s, allowing them to be more serious students. The …