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By the Numbers: Understanding the Gender Gap in Undergraduate
Enrollment
According to a recent report from ACE's Center
for Policy Analysis, family income plays a significant role in
perpetuating the gender gap in undergraduate enrollment.
Gender
Equity in Higher Education: 2006 reports that the gender gap
diminishes among dependent undergraduates aged 24 or younger as family
income rises. Among students whose families made less than $97,500 in
2003–04, females did indeed account for the majority of students.
At the lowest income level (families making less than $32,500 in
2003–04), only 44 percent of all dependent undergraduates were
male, and at the middle-income level (families making between $32,500
and $97,499), only 47 percent of all dependent undergraduates were male.
However, as the $97,500 income plateau was surpassed, male students took
the majority—across all racial/ethnic groups. Fifty-two percent of
all dependent undergraduates in the highest income quartile were male in
2003–04. . . .
Excerpted from the fall 2006 issue of The Presidency. To
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