ERIC Number: EJ1076159
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015
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Four Generations of Women's Educational Experience in a Rural Chinese Community
Huang, Haigen; Placier, Peggy
Gender and Education, v27 n6 p599-617 2015
Our study sought to understand changes in gender inequality in education across four generations of rural Chinese women's educational experiences in a small community in southern China. The 24 interviews and numerous informal conversations with 12 women showed that gender-based favouritism for men and against women undergirded family expectations, support, and decisions about women's formal education, but this manifested in different ways over generations. It appeared as strict gender division of labour within families, control, or ignorance of women's access to schooling, participants' emotional trauma, lower expectations of daughters' schoolwork, and gender-discriminating language in schools.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Equal Education, Gender Bias, Social Attitudes, Interviews, Access to Education, Generational Differences, Family Environment, Emotional Response, Expectation, Gender Discrimination, Womens Education, Phenomenology, Cultural Influences, Family Income, Personal Narratives
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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