Chinese Rural Female Students’ Situation in Accessing to Education Resources

A Literature Review on Chinese Urban-rural Differences

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211020.142How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Chinese Rural Female Students, Chinese Urban-rural Difference, Finance Factor, School Factor, Family Factor

Abstract

This paper reviews and examines rural education’s financial and family planning policies in China to explore the influencing factors of gender differences in education in China and the differences in access to educational resources between urban-rural female students. Below are three main arguments that this review show from three factors: (1) Finance: there are differences in the economic development level of each region in China, and insufficient educational investment issued by local governments restricts the development of rural schools. Meanwhile, elementary education resources and funds in China are allocated according to household registration, which also leads to the unfair developing opportunity for students; (2) Schools: due to unsafe risks caused by disadvantageous school locations, teachers’ and textbooks’ unbalanced care to boys’ leadership, incomplete courses to support girls’ art interests, these could cause negative impacts on cultivating characters and access to the educational resource for rural female students; (3) Family: under the influence of family planning disparity and boy preference, family is a significant factor in female students’ education, especially for rural girls, who are facing more intense sibling competition than urban girls. Rural households are more willing to invest in boys’ education, resulting in unequal educational resources due to gender inequality at the family level. This review also indicates the consequences of this phenomenon on rural female students in China: due to the lack of education, it is hard for them to realize their self-cognition and ideology, leading to early pregnancy, an unwanted marriage, and even mental illness. Therefore, it is important to further improve the female student’s education, and it is worthy of our in-depth thinking.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jingtong Huang
AU  - Yingxin Huang
AU  - Hui Lin
AU  - Zhiyuan Yang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/21
TI  - Chinese Rural Female Students’ Situation in Accessing to Education Resources
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Relations and Social Sciences (ICPRSS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 129
EP  - 134
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211020.142
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211020.142
ID  - Huang2021
ER  -