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1970s investment in disadvantaged women pays off in higher earnings for families too.(NEWSWATCH)

Women in Higher Education

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Two sociology professors at the City University of New York's Graduate Center who tracked nearly 2,000 disadvantaged women at CUNY have won the 2009 Grawemeyer Award in Education.

Paul Attewell and David Lavin followed women who entered CUNY through open enrollment in the 1970s and interviewed them three decades later for their award-winning ...

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