Journal
SEX ROLES
Volume 48, Issue 5-6, Pages 277-290Publisher
KLUWER ACADEMIC/PLENUM PUBL
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022829522556
Keywords
gender gap; higher education; field of study; Israel; high school history; gender composition; selectivity
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Gender segregation in higher education is well documented. Female students major in mathematics, technology, and sciences less often than men, and they concentrate in humanities and social sciences. Using multinomial logit on the 6,139 applicants to Tel Aviv University in Israel in 1994, I examined the claim that one of the roots of gender segregation in higher education lies in course-taking patterns in high school. The main findings are as follows: Women are underrepresented among the applicants to the mathematics-related fields of study; mathematical background in high school is particularly effective in narrowing the gender gap in applying to selective and attractive, but not mathematically related, fields of study at the university; women rely on high qualifications more than men when applying to selective and male-dominated fields of study. Several explanations of the findings will be discussed.
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