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Centre for Longitudinal Studies Resource Centre

Grant reference: RES-579-47-0001

Journal article details

Title Single-sex and co-educational secondary schooling : what are the social and family outcomes, in the short and longer term?

Description This paper considers the question of whether attending a single-sex or co-educational secondary school made any difference to a range of social outcomes for girls and boys at school, and for men and women as they progressed through the life course. We examine these questions using data from a large and nationally representative sample of British respondents born in 1958. The outcomes examined include whether or not the participants liked school; their histories of partnership formation and dissolution; childbearing; attitudes to gender roles; and well-being. Among the minority of outcomes showing a significant link to attending a single sex school were lower truancy, and for males, dislike of school, divorce, and malaise at 42 (if they had been to private or grammar schools).

Url http://www.llcsjournal.org/index.php/llcs/article/view/148

Language English

Primary contributor

Author Alice Sullivan

Additional contributors

Co-author Heather Joshi

Co-author Diana Leonard

Additional details

Volume number 3

Issue number 1

Is this item peer reviewed (refereed)? Yes

ISSN 1757-9597

Publisher Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies

Date of publication 01 January 2012

Page reference 137-157

Place of publication London

Is this item a pre-print or post-print? Post-print

Title of journal Longitudinal and life course studies : international journal

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Harvard

Sullivan, Alice et al (2012) Single-sex and co-educational secondary schooling : what are the social and family outcomes, in the short and longer term?. Longitudinal and life course studies : international journal. 3 (1), pp. 137-157 London: Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies.

Vancouver

Sullivan Alice et al. Single-sex and co-educational secondary schooling : what are the social and family outcomes, in the short and longer term?. Longitudinal and life course studies : international journal 2012; 3 (1): 137-157.