Research on the Relationship between Higher Education and Women’s Marriage

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10.2991/assehr.k.220504.264How to use a DOI?

Keywords

higher education; female; educational marriage; age - period - cohort analysis

Abstract

As a social phenomenon, the unequal relationship between men and women has existed for a long time. Feminism has struggled to achieve gender equality in education since its birth. In recent years, there has been a gender reversal in China’s higher education population, both students and graduates. Women surpass men, and the scale of female enrollment is still further expanding. However, the acquisition of higher education does not improve women’s advantages in the marriage market but increases the difficulty of their marriage matching. Based on the data of the third Chinese women’s social status survey in 2010, taking married women as the research object, this paper decomposes the effects of higher education on women’s educational marriage age, period, and cohort, to grasp the changing trend of three-time dimensions. The empirical results show that the age and period of higher education play a significant role, but the cohort effect is not obvious. The age of first marriage always has a positive impact on the educational marriage age difference of women with higher education. About 34 years old is the turning point of the educational marriage age difference from negative to positive; The influence of first marriage age on women with non-higher education shows a U-shaped distribution. The current research results show that women with higher education are more likely to choose a spouse with lower education than themselves; The age of first marriage has a positive impact on the educational marriage of women with higher education; The age and period effect of higher education on women’s educational marriage shows that the level of education is always an important standard for mate selection. At the same time, the domestic society needs to give women with higher education a relatively loose environment. Marriage is not the goal of life, nor can it be used as a standard to measure women’s quality of life.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yifei Wang
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/06/01
TI  - Research on the Relationship between Higher Education and Women’s Marriage
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 8th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1461
EP  - 1466
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220504.264
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220504.264
ID  - Wang2022
ER  -