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2022-08-08
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There is an ongoing debate about whether gender equality in education has been achieved or not. Research efforts have focused on primary and secondary education, while there are fewer studies on higher education, and few studies refer to distance education. To contribute to address this gap, this article presents a gender analysis of educational outcomes in economics at Spain’s leading distance university, UNED, which is also the largest university in the European Union in terms of enrolment. The aim of the article is to assess whether there is a gender gap in academic results and to identify the sociodemographic and academic variables that may be causing such a gap by analysing how they shape such differences. Finally, the impact of COVID-19 is also considered. The results confirm that women underperformed significantly in our sample in terms of passing and scoring, especially among those between 30 and 45 years of age, who are more likely to have young children. When considering a distribution of family tasks biased against women, along with the higher average age of distance learning university students, gender gaps could probably be greater in nonface-to-face education. COVID-19 narrowed the gender gap during the lockdown period, as some men and women staying at home together were able to improve task sharing capabilities. After the lockdown, however, women’s results worsened compared to pre-COVID-19 levels. A possible explanation is that they had to continue performing the same family duties in addition to substituting education and caring services (e.g., nurseries and day centres for the elderly) that did not resume activity immediately or continuously.
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The registered version of this article, first published in PLoS One, is available online at the publisher's website: Public Library of Science, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272341
La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en PLoS One, está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: Public Library of Science, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272341
La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en PLoS One, está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: Public Library of Science, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272341
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Castellanos-Serrano, C., Escribano, G., Paredes-Gázquez, J, y San-Martín González, E. (2022). What is behind the gender gap in economics distance education: Age, work-life balance and COVID-19. PLoS One, 17(8): e0272341
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Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales
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Economía Aplicada