Women’s Opportunity of Education in Rural China

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220131.207How to use a DOI?

Keywords

gender; education; rural region; family; patriarchy

Abstract

Being equal in education is always a significant problem for China. Since the establishment of the new China, the Chinese government has published many policies to balance the different education situations between people, like the expansion of higher education and the compulsory education system. The country provides more educational opportunities for residents. According to recent reports, almost all the people in the school-age are able to go to primary school, and the ratios of males and females’ enrollment in higher education are also nearly equal. However, the data describing the education situation for every province in China shows that there is still education inequality between cities and countries. Also, the gender gap in education in rural areas is significant. Women in countries have fewer opportunities to go to school than other people in China. This article reviews the early research about education inequality and discusses two popular theories in past studies. Then, it focuses on how a person’s family factors influence gender inequality in education in rural China. The early studies show that a person’s academic performance is not why women have fewer studying opportunities than men. Parents’ educational levels, the number of siblings, and the family economic situation affect a person’s education attainments and influence the girls more than boys. In rural China, the statistics show that the average educational levels of parents are lower, a family has more children, and the economic situation is worse than in the city. They may be the reasons for the gender gap in education in rural China. For future research, it will be meaningful to find the children’s thoughts of going to schools. Knowing why people want or don’t want to study and what influences their thoughts will be helpful to improve the educational system in China.

Copyright

© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

Open Access

This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

Download article (PDF)

TY  - CONF
AU  - Yuying Wang
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/02/01
TI  - Women’s Opportunity of Education in Rural China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1142
EP  - 1146
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220131.207
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220131.207
ID  - Wang2022
ER  -