ABSTRACT

We study gender differences in the selection of traditional universities versus universities of applied sciences in Germany. Do women, due to life and job goals, less often enrol than men in traditional universities and more often enrol at the more practice- and profession-oriented universities of applied sciences? Or are women overrepresented at traditional universities due to prior educational choices and outcomes such as higher school grades and more frequent choice of non-technical fields of study? Our analyses on a national sample of 1st-year students report a 14-percentage point higher likelihood of women than men to enter traditional universities. This gender gap can almost entirely be attributed to educational factors, specifically women’s less frequent choice of engineering majors, and hardly by job goal preferences. That, net of these factors, no gender difference exists indicates that women in Germany do not aim lower or higher than men as to the institution choice.

摘要

我们研究了德国传统大学与应用科学大学在选择上的性别差异。由于生活和工作目标，女性在传统大学就读的频率是否低于男性，而在更多以实践和专业为导向的应用科学大学就读？还是由于先前的教育选择和成果（例如更高的学校成绩和更频繁地选择非技术研究领域），女性在传统大学中的人数过多？我们对全国一年级学生样本的分析表明，女性进入传统大学的可能性比男性高 14 个百分点。这种性别差距几乎可以完全归因于教育因素，特别是女性选择工程专业的频率较低，而几乎不能归因于工作目标偏好。那，