Girls outperform boys in educational achievement, yet women in work are less well paid, are underrepresented in positions of power and carry a disproportionate

For much of the twentieth century, women lagged considerably behind men in their educational attainment. However, in recent decades, young women have become an

Improvements in education and economic expansion in the 1950s ensured a range of school-leaving employment opportunities. Yet girls' full acceptance as adult wo

Girls outperform boys in educational achievement, yet women in work are less well paid, are underrepresented in positions of power and carry a disproportionate

Gaskell (social and educational studies, U. of British Columbia) explores the way young men and women experience and account for the relations between school an