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Gender Inequality in High Education

Authors
Yuzhen Hou1, *
1School of Shanxi Modern Bilingual School, Taiyuan, 030600, Shanxi, China
*Corresponding author. Email: aurora037@poers.edu.pl
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Yuzhen Hou
Available Online 29 November 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-13-8_10How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Gender inequality; Higher education; STEM; Female academic promotion
Abstract

Gender equality represents the progress of modern civilized society, which is also an important condition for the sustainable development of society. The increasing proportions of women receiving higher education have become an important indicator to reflect the level of women’s education and development. This is because higher education will have a direct and far-reaching impact on the career development space and social participation breadth of both sexes. Also, this study investigates gender inequalities in higher education through reviewing previous works and adding critical thinking. Above all, the paper finds that boys had more educational access and opportunities, but the difference between girls and boys narrows. It is generally discriminated that boys tend to be good at science and technology, whereas girls have more talents in humanities subjects. There are three main sources of pressure on the academic career development of female professors in colleges and universities: (1) pressure from role conflict; (2) pressure from exceeding self-imposed limits; (3) pressure from gender discrimination. Therefore, there is a future implication to studying the equality of opportunities between the sexes in education, especially in the field of higher education.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Sport Science, Education and Social Development (SSESD 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
29 November 2022
ISBN
978-2-494069-13-8
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-13-8_10How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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