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All kinds of potential: Women and out-migration in an Atlantic Canadian coastal community
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posted on 2023-05-18, 10:11 authored by Michael CorbettRural researchers have found that women leave rural communities at a higher rate than men. Rural education researchers have also found that young women are significantly more successful in formal education than their male counterparts. Few studies though attempt to explain why this is so. This work presents data and analysis from two studies of education and out-migration from a rural-coastal community in Nova Scotia Canada. The questions I investigate in this session are: (1) why are women more likely to leave rural communities? (2) how have contemporary change forces like globalization and network society influenced the gender balance regarding rural out-migration? and (3) how has young rural women’s relative success in formal education related to their higher rates of outmigration? Given the recent concern about boy’s education, I raise some critical questions about the parallel notion that girls are doing just fine
History
Publication title
Journal of Rural StudiesVolume
23Pagination
430-442ISSN
0743-0167Department/School
Faculty of EducationPublisher
Pergamon-Elsevier Science LtdPlace of publication
The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford, England, Ox5 1GbRights statement
Copyright 2007 Elsevier Ltd.Repository Status
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