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The Most Disadvantaged: An Examination and Analysis of Rural Girls' Access to Higher Education in China

Liu, Jinghuan
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1207896230

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2008, MA, Kent State University, College of Education, Health, and Human Services / Department of Educational Foundations and Special Services.
This paper examines the current disadvantaged status of rural Chinese girls access to higher education and analyzes their and their parents mentality. The worldwide progress made in girls access to basic education and China higher education development promoted by preferential state policies in the late 1990s have hardly affected rural girls. In a recent study examining the gender and regional origin inequality at six universities in southwest China, rural girls constituted only 22% of the female student body. The thesis examines the current disadvantaged situation of rural girls as compared to rural boys and their urban counterparts in the social economic background of a sliding rural economy; and then proceeds to probe into the economic contributing factors to their disadvantaged status and analyze this phenomenon within the theories of Image of Limited Good in peasant society and Patriarchy by socialist feminism. The research relies on both quantitative and qualitative data. I conclude that rural girls are the most disadvantaged group in accessing higher education, which is caused by a sliding economy, high tuition fees, and a gloomy job market. The theories of Limited Good and Patriarchy provide a sound and plausible explanation to rural girls and their parents decision-making process in higher education.
Vilma Seeberg, PhD (Advisor)
Tricia Niesz, PhD (Committee Member)
Lew Fried (Committee Member)
46 p.
Education
Rural Chinese girls; higher education; disadvantaged; Limited Good; patriarchy

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  • Liu, J. (2008). The Most Disadvantaged: An Examination and Analysis of Rural Girls' Access to Higher Education in China [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1207896230

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Liu, Jinghuan. The Most Disadvantaged: An Examination and Analysis of Rural Girls' Access to Higher Education in China. 2008. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1207896230.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Liu, Jinghuan. "The Most Disadvantaged: An Examination and Analysis of Rural Girls' Access to Higher Education in China." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1207896230

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