Developmental Barriers of Chinese Female Students in Undergraduate Education

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211220.235How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Female students; Higher education; Developmental barriers; Undergraduate education

Abstract

Developmental barriers that Chinese female students meet at the undergraduate stage are various, which has triggered wide discussion. The barriers occur at the starting point, the duration of higher education and after graduation. After reviewing existing literature, this paper reveals that the equality of education is not satisfactory. At first, traditional concepts and family background deprive females of the opportunities of obtaining higher education. A separation in majors that enforces the stereotypes of “male fields” and “female fields” also affects female students choosing majors. Even if females overcome the obstacles at the starting point, more are plaguing them in the education process, including the patriarchal culture in physical space, gender differences in campus culture, and unreasonable allocation of resources and curriculum. The influence extends to the after-graduation. Employment opportunities, career choices, promotion, and salary, are not so smooth as those of males.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yilan Chen
AU  - Xuemeng Guo
AU  - Xiaoyuan Liu
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/24
TI  - Developmental Barriers of Chinese Female Students in Undergraduate Education
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1384
EP  - 1390
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.235
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.235
ID  - Chen2021
ER  -