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Inflection Point: Is college really a path to gender equality?

Photo courtesy of Nancy Niemi/modified from original
Nancy Niemi

Nancy Niemi, Director of Faculty Teaching Initiatives at Yale questions the conventional wisdom that college is a path to gender equality. 

As more and more women graduate from college and even surpass their male peers in levels of education, men are finding other means for achieving career success. Women now need more degrees than ever just to compete because in spite of all this education, institutional sexism is still prevalent.

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