A very English revolution: the impacts of co-residence at the University of Oxford |
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| Authors: | Dennis A Ahlburg Brian P McCall |
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| Institution: | 1. Economics, Trinity University , San Antonio, TX, USA dahlburg@trinity.edu;3. Education, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI, USA |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACT This paper examines the impacts of co-residence (admitting women to men’s colleges and men to women’s colleges) at the University of Oxford beginning in the 1970s. Co-residence increased the representation of women undergraduates at Oxford to near parity with men; the representation of women in academic positions rose but not as substantially as that of women undergraduates and postgraduates and today women comprise still only a third of academics in the colleges of the university; the fellowships of the former female colleges became genuinely mixed, the fellowships of the former male colleges more slowly; women are less likely to be appointed head of a former men’s college than are men to be appointed head of a former women’s college; the quality of Oxford undergraduates rose with the increased number of female undergraduates; and the quality of undergraduates in the former male colleges rose at the expense of the female colleges. |
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| Keywords: | Co-residence women’s colleges female faculty University of Oxford Oxford colleges |
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