Journal
SOCIOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 6, Issue -, Pages 661-683Publisher
SOC SOCIOLOGICAL SCIENCE
DOI: 10.15195/v6.a25
Keywords
achievement; femininity; gender; gender typicality; high school students; masculinity
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- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [P01-HD31921]
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [R01 HD040428-02]
- National Science Foundation [REC-0126167]
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Health and Child Development [5 R24 HD042849]
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This study is the first to use nationally representative data to examine whether differences in gender-typical behaviors among adolescents are associated with high school academic performance and whether such associations vary by race or socioeconomic status. Using wave I data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and linked academic transcript data from the Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement study, we find that boys who report moderate levels of gender atypicality earn the highest grade point averages (GPAs), but few boys score in this range. As gender typicality increases, boys' GPAs decline steeply. In contrast, girls who practice moderate levels of gender typicality earn slightly higher GPAs than other girls. These patterns generally hold across race and socioeconomic status groups.
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