The Deepening Gender Divide in Credentials, 2000–2020: Continuity, Change, and Implications

Claudia Buchmann; Rachel E. Dwyer; Man Yao

doi:10.7758/RSF.2025.11.1.08

Article Information

vol. 11 no. 1 154-177

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.1.08

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online January 1, 2025.

© 2025 Russell Sage Foundation. Buchmann, Claudia, Rachel E. Dwyer, and Man Yao. 2025. “The Deepening Gender Divide in Credentials, 2000–2020: Continuity, Change, and Implications.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 11(1): 154–77. https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.1.08. We appreciate the helpful comments of the editors and the participants of the RSF workshop on this special issue, as well as a small grant from the OSU Department of Sociology. Direct correspondence to: Claudia Buchmann, at buchmann.4@osu.edu; Rachel E. Dwyer, at dwyer.46@osu.edu; Man Yao, at many@denison.edu, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Claudia Buchmann^a,
Rachel E. Dwyer^b and
Man Yao^c

^aCollege of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate of the Institution for Population Research at The Ohio State University, United States
^bProfessor of sociology and faculty affiliate of the Institute for Population Research at The Ohio State University, United States
^cAssistant professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Denison University, United States