Gender, Social Background, and the Choice of College Major in a Liberal Arts Context

By Ann L. Mullen. 2014

90 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Gender Studies, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/6a377033f2657bf9bb40c260d37a123ee188c6f4

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In Education

1. Maria Charles
2. Erin A. Cech

In Gender Studies

1. Erin A. Cech
2. Maria Charles
3. Bridget Harr
4. Alexandra Hendley
5. Sarah Thébaud
6. Heejung Chung

In Social Psychology

1. Maria Charles
2. Erin A. Cech

Citations in the corpus

• Who likes math where? Gender differences in eighth-graders’ attitudes around the world (2014, background): “…country-level effects discussed above: low socio-economic status may bring about more instrumental (i.e. less self-expressive) value systems within families (Lareau, 2011; Mullen, 2013), which may in turn reduce the likelihood that girls develop gender-typed curricular affinities and aspirations.”