Gender inequalities in education in terms of systematic variations in access to educational institutions, in competencies, school marks, and educational certificates along the axis of gender have tremendously changed over the course of the 20th century. Although this does not apply to all stages and areas of the educational career, it is particularly obvious looking at upper secondary education. Before the major boost of educational expansion in the 1960s, women s participation in upper secondary general education, and their chances to successfully finish this educational pathway, have...