Educational assortative mating in Europe and the reversal of the gender imbalance in tertiary education KU Leuven
The reversal of the gender balance in higher education
A major social development in the second half of the twentieth century has been the dramatic increase of participation in higher education, in particular among women. One important consequence of this development is that differences in the relative educational attainment of men and women have changed: in the past, men were typically more highly educated than women, while today women ...