Kleinfeld, Judith. “No Map to Manhood: Male and Female Mindsets Behind the College Gender Gap.” Gender Issues, vol. 26, no. 3/4, Dec. 2009, pp. 171–82. EBSCOhost, https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.ou.edu/10.1007/s12147-009-9083-y.
Judith Kleinfeld is a professor of psychology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She specializes in boys’ issues and has created the Boys Project, an international organization of researchers, policymakers, teachers, and parents concerned about boys’ problems. Judith Kleinfeld explores the possible reasons why the gender gap exists and looks at the difference in mindset between young men and women. Kleinfeld found that young men often saw higher education as an extension of high school rather than an investment in their future. In contrast, the opposite was true for young women. I will mostlikly comparing Kleinfelds suggests with finding from other paper that I have yet to discover. Kleinfeld suggests that universities make an effort to get young men more excited about college while considering the mindset of young men. She suggests professors allow for more movement during class to better tailor the learning environment to young men though that there were a other few suggestions.
“Where the Boys Aren’t: Non-cognitive Skills, Returns to School and the Gender Gap in Higher Education.” Economics of Education Review 21.6 (2002): 589-598. Web.
Brain A. Jacob from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy school of government to which I can only persum he is a professor. In this paper he seeks to determine if cognitive factors effect the rate of college enrollment between men and woman. He concluded that mostly non-cognative facts carry the most weight and it is not a question of ability but rather something else. Thought it is possible that results are squed due to other limiting factor such as difference in school and the requirements of each individual school district. I will mostlikely be working with sections 3-7 of Jacobs paper where he discusses determining factor for males and females in college enrolment and life after postsecondary schooling.
Buchmann, Claudia, and Thomas A. DiPrete. “The Growing Female Advantage in College Completion: The Role of Family Background and Academic Achievement.” American Sociological Review, vol. 71, no. 4, 2006, pp. 515–41, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30039008. Accessed 17 Apr. 2022.
Still unsure about this source, not sure where it would play a roll in my research paper.