The rise of women diprete buchmann 3 the rise of women the growing gender gap in education and what it means for american schools thomas a diprete claudia buchmann professor of sociology columbia university the way education used to be back in 1960 more than twice as many men as women between the ages of 26 28 were college graduates. In the rise of women the growing gender gap in education and what it means for american schools thomas diprete and claudia buchmann provide a detailed and accessible account of womens educational advantage and suggest new strategies to improve schooling outcomes for both boys and girls the rise of women opens with a masterful overview of . What accounts for this enormous reversal in the gender education gap inthe rise of women the growing gender gap in education and what it means for american schools thomas diprete and claudia buchmann provide a detailed and accessible account of womens educational advantage and suggest new strategies to improve schooling outcomes for both . The rise of women in the educational realm has not wiped out the gender wage gap even women with a college degree continue to earn less on average than men with a college degree but the rapid rise of women with college degrees has certainly narrowed the gender wage gap. The rise of women the growing gender gap in education and what it means for american schools is a detailed account of how women have approached and even surpassed men in many different dimensions of educational outcomes over the past three decades thomas diprete and claudia buchmann begin with the premise that while we should celebrate the higher educational outcomes of women we should also