New research uncovers academic disparities among straight, LGBTQ+ students

Gabrielle Beechert | Thursday, February 17, 2022

Notre Dame assistant professor of sociology Joel Mittleman recently published research addressing education disparities among gay, straight and bisexual students, and how these disparities also exist among gender, birth cohort and race.  According to Mittleman, it seems that women have always performed better in school than their male counterparts. But Mittleman found that the group