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Article: Female graduate students' perceptions of their interactions with male and female major professors.
- Article from:
- Journal of Higher Education
- Article date:
- September 1, 1993
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Women graduate students, in many fields, are more likely than their male cohorts to drop out before completing their Ph.D's [19, 25], to terminate their graduate educations after obtaining only their master's degrees [4], or to consider withdrawing from graduate school before completing their degrees [21]. This is in spite of the fact that women enter graduate school with higher mean undergraduate grade-point averages than men [19,25].
Various hypotheses have been formulated to explain these phenomena, but implicit in all of them is the assumption that women's graduate experiences differ from those of men. For example, some authors [for example, 11, 15] have ...