Educational Inequalities Among School Leavers in Ireland 1979-1994

EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITIES AMONG SCHOOL LEAVERS

Within social classes, the 1979 cohort of males were more likely than females
to attend third-level education, while the position was reversed among the 1994
cohort. Gender differences in participation are less marked among the
professional, semi- and unskilled manual groups, but are particularly evident
among the farming group with females three times more likely than their male
counterparts to attend third-level institutions (Table 6).

A growth in third-level participation has taken place within each of the social
class groups, with a particularly pronounced increase among those from farming
backgrounds. However, Table 6 indicates the persistence of substantial class
differences in third-level participation; among the 1994 cohort, over two-thirds
of those from higher professional backgrounds attend third-level institutions
compared with 15 per cent of those from an unskilled manual background.

Table 7 presents a multinomial logit model which estimates the factors
associated with third-level participation; this analysis is restricted to those who

Table 7: Logit Model of Third-Level Participation Among Males and Females
Completing Leaving Certificate Level, 1979-1994

Note: *** p<.001, ** p<.01, * p<.05.

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