Universities do more than teach disciplines: through faculty norms, curricula, student life and signaling they socialize students into contemporary gendered behaviors and expectations. That socialization influences dating, marriage rates, civic culture, and partisan alignment beyond campus.
— If higher education is a primary engine of changing sex roles, then debates over university reform, hiring, and curricula become levers for large social trends in family formation and politics.
Adeline A. Allen
2026.04.23
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The article's title and subtitle ('The Bard for the Dance Between the Sexes' / 'What Can Be Done about the Universities?') frame universities as active shapers of gender relations — the concrete diagnostic that motivates policy prescriptions.
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