The influence of gender composition in a field of study on students’ drop-out of higher education
| Type of Publication: | Journal article |
| Publication status: | Published |
| URI (citable link): | http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-2-1kp9vh3570bjo9 |
| Author: | Meyer, Jasmin; Strauß, Susanne |
| Year of publication: | 2019 |
| Published in: | European Journal of Education ; 54 (2019), 3. - pp. 443-456. - ISSN 0141-8211. - eISSN 1465-3435 |
| DOI (citable link): | https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12357 |
| Summary: |
Combining Tinto's classical model of student drop‐out with Kanter's assessment of minorities, this article examines the influence of gender composition in a field of study on drop‐out from higher education. Our empirical analysis is based on a sample of students who left German higher education in 2014. Our results confirm previous findings that women in gender‐atypical subjects show a higher drop‐out risk than their male fellow students. We assess several mechanisms which could contribute to explain this effect. Contrary to our expectations, social integration, in the sense of contact with lecturers, seems to be a protective factor for women and men in gender‐atypical subjects. For women in gender‐atypical fields of study, contact with peers is an additional protective factor against drop‐out. The most important mechanism to explain higher education drop‐out is women's more negative self‐assessment of their suitability for male‐dominated subjects.
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| Subject (DDC): | 300 Social Sciences, Sociology |
| Comment on publication: | Special Issue: Teacher professional competences and standards : concepts and implementation |
| Link to License: | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International |
| Bibliography of Konstanz: | Yes |
| Refereed: | Yes |
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MEYER, Jasmin, Susanne STRAUSS, 2019. The influence of gender composition in a field of study on students’ drop-out of higher education. In: European Journal of Education. 54(3), pp. 443-456. ISSN 0141-8211. eISSN 1465-3435. Available under: doi: 10.1111/ejed.12357
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