How Educational Differences Are Widening America's Political Rift

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11. The baby boomer times is a long time ago though

women earned only 9.1 percent in 1970-1. As opposed to near half by 1985 and the majority since the nineties.

The pill, the divorce rate, the seventies or just the difference between Generation X and baby boomers. Boys didn't need to go to college to avoid the draft in the eighties.

In The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap (NBER Working Paper No. 12139), authors Claudia Goldin, Lawrence Katz, and Ilyana Kuziemko they speculate
" Another aspect in the reversal of the college gender gap, rather than just its elimination, is the persistence of behavioral and developmental differences between males and females. Boys often mature more slowly than girls. In grades K-12, boys tend to have a higher incidence of behavioral problems (or lower level of non-cognitive skills) than girls. Girls spend more time doing homework than boys. These behavioral factors, after adjusting for family background, test scores, and high school achievement, can explain virtually the entire female advantage in getting into college for the high school graduating class of 1992, the authors figure. It allowed "girls to leapfrog over boys in the race to college." Similarly, teenage boys, both in the early 1980s and late 1990s, had a higher (self-reported) incidence of arrests and school suspensions than teenage girls."

The boys are slower than girls theory.