Gender Matters

Portions of this article appear in Linda J. Sax, The Gender Gap in College: Maximizing the Developmental Potential of Women and Men (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008).

Astin A. W. (1993). Assessment for excellence: The philosophy and practice of assessment and evaluation in higher education. New York: Macmillan.

Baxter Magolda M. B. (1992). Knowing and reasoning in college: Gender-related patterns in students' intellectual development. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Chodorow N. (1978). The reproduction of mothering. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Erikson E. H. (1968). Identity: Youth and crisis. New York: Norton.

Gilligan C. (1982). In a different voice: Psychological theory and women's development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Gurian M. (2005, December 4). Disappearing act: Where have the men gone? No place good. The Washington Post, p. Bl.

Josselson R. (1987). Finding herself: Pathways to identity development in women. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Kenny M.E. , & Donaldson G.A. (1991). Contributions of parental attachment and family structure to the social and psychological functioning of first-year college students. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 38, 479–486.

Kinzie J. , Gonyea R. , Kuh G. D. , Umbach P. , Blaich C , & Korkmaz A. (2007, November). The relationship between gender and student engagement in college. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, Louisville, KY.

Kohlberg L. (1975). The cognitive-developmental approach to moral education. Phi Delta Kappan, 56, 670–677.

Kuh G. D. (2001). Assessing what really matters to student learning: Inside the National Survey of Student Engagement. Change, 33, 10–17, 66.

Lewin T. (2006 July 9). At colleges, women are leaving men in the dust. The New York Times, p. Al.

Pascarella E. T. , & Terenzini P. T. (2005). How college affects students: A third decade of research. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Perry W. G. (1970). Forms of intellectual and ethical development in the college years: A scheme. Troy, MO: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston.

Sax L. J. (2008). The gender gap in college: Maximizing the developmental potential of women and men. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Snyder T. D. , Dillow S. A. , and Hoffman C. M. (2008). See U.S. Department of Education. Digest of Education Statistics 2007 (NCES 2008-022).

Tinto V. (1987). Leaving college: Rethinking the causes and cures of student attrition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

U.S. Department of Education. Digest of Education Statistics 2007 (NCES 2008-022) by Snyder, T. D., Dillow, S. A., and Hoffman, C M. (2008). National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, Washington, DC.