Education and Gender Egalitarianism: The Case of China
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| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | Xiaoling She, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California-Davis. Her main fields of interest are social stratification, sociology of gender, and quantitative methodology. She is currently researching market transition and gender segregation in urban China; gender attitudes in China: education and the Communist Party's state and foreign influences (with Yifei Zhu); and gender, housework, and household power in urban China (with Yifei Zhu). |
| ANO | 2004 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | Sociology of Education |
| ISSN | 0038-0407 |
| E-ISSN | 1939-8573 |
| EDITORA | SAGE Publications |
| DOI | 10.1177/003804070407700403 |
| CITAÇÕES | 25 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
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Resumo
This study examined Chinese attitudes toward women's careers, marriage rights, sexual freedom, and the importance of having sons using a 1991 national sample of individuals and community-level data and through a series of nested multilevel models. Education influences gender attitudes in multiple ways at both the micro- and macrolevels. Better-educated individuals hold more egalitarian gender attitudes, and this positive effect of individual education is larger for women than for men, indicating a strong empowerment effect for women. Egalitarian gender attitudes trickle down through education, as individuals in communities with high education are socialized toward more egalitarian attitudes. Community education has a larger effect toward the egalitarian direction on the attitude toward the importance of having sons than on the attitude toward women's marriage rights, indicating that change in the latter attitude occurred earlier and has now spread via education. These findings show that education is a vehicle of socialization that is used by both the domestic power elite (the Communist Party) and the Western culture.