Taking Their Place: Educational Expansion and Inequality of Educational Opportunities—A Gendered Perspective

Eyal Bar-Haim, Carmel Blank, Assaf Rotman

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Abstract

Educational expansion and gender differences in educational attainment have both been studied in various contexts, but their interdependence has rarely been examined, and even then, yielded conflicting results. We focus on the expansion of tertiary education in Israel resulting from several reforms introduced in the mid-1990s and ask two questions: (a) How did educational expansion affect inequality of opportunity (IEO)? (b) Did the effect of educational expansion differ between men and women? Based on the Israeli census, we examine changes in IEO between 1995 and 2008 across all levels of education. We find that women from lower socioeconomic background were the main beneficiaries of the expansion, especially at the MA+ level. Several explanations for these findings are discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)639-661
Number of pages23
JournalHigher Education Policy
Volume32
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2019
Externally publishedYes

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, International Association of Universities.

Funding

FundersFunder number
Fonds National de la Recherche LuxembourgFNR/P11/05, INTER/FACE/16/11333934

    Keywords

    • Intersectionality
    • Israel
    • MMI
    • Persistent inequality

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