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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 4.
Published in final edited form as: Am Sociol Rev. 2017 Aug 4;82(5):945–976. doi: 10.1177/0003122417720466

Table 5.

Comparison of Frequency of Discussion of Behavioral Responses to Cultural Antinomy of Sex and Schooling Across Interview Sub-samples

Student Interviews Teacher Interviews
All Female Male All Female Male
Discusses teachers suspending or punishing students for relationships 74% 83% 61% 92% 100% 89%
  [Students] report personal experience of teacher punishment for relationships1 42% 50% 27% --- --- ---
  [Teachers] describe punishing students before detecting evidence of academic or behavioral changes1 --- --- --- 79% 75% 81%
  [Teachers] describe punishing a high-performing student who was caught in a relationship1 --- --- --- 75% 63% 81%
  [Teachers] use language of female vulnerability and/or need to protect girls when discussing punishments1 --- --- --- 54% 50% 56%
Discusses parents or relatives withdrawing financial support for schooling due to student relationship. 67% 71% 61% 58% 63% 56%
  [Students] report personal experience of relatives withdrawing support 21% 38% 0% --- --- ---
  [Teachers] describe parents as allies in regulating students’ sexual behavior. --- --- --- 65% 75% 61%
  [Teachers] describe specific example of a parent intervening due to a relationship --- --- --- 73% 80% 70%
Students discuss relationships as a socially codified way to leave school 43% 58% 22% --- --- ---
  Reporting personal experience2 28% 36% 0% --- --- ---
  Reporting experience of others2 72% 64% 100% --- --- ---
N 42 24 18 26 8 18

Notes: Shaded cells indicate significant differences between male and female interview respondents (p<0.05).

Unless otherwise specified, denominator for all rows is limited to those who discussed the antinomy between sex and schooling in their interviews (See Table 3).

1

Denominator limited to respondents who discussed teacher punishment (first row of table).

2

Denominator limited to respondents who explicitly discussed relationships as socially codified way to leave school (tenth row of table).