Choices and Constraints

Jian Zhu

ISBN 10: 3034308647 / ISBN 13: 9783034308649

Editore: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Jan 2014, 2014

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Neuware -This book seeks to investigate gender differences in final year undergraduates¿ employment expectations of their starting jobs, including salary, occupational and working region expectations, and to identify factors that have contributed to gender differences in these expectations. It employs an on-site self-completion questionnaire survey and a follow-up semi-structured interview carried out in a university in Central China. The study adopts the conceptual perspective of ¿choice and constraint¿, which means that male and female final year undergraduates are able to make their own choices towards employment expectations; however, their choices of employment expectations are limited by a number of constraints. Empirical studies find that there are gender differences in employment expectations. This study further reveals the influence of gendered economic roles, experienced or perceived sex discrimination in Chinäs graduate labour market job preferences and parents¿ expectations on those gender differences in employment expectations.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 252 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: Choices and Constraints
• Editore: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Jan 2014
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3034308647
• ISBN 13: 9783034308649
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 225 L x 150 A x 14 P (millimetri) 225 millimetri di larghezza per 150 millimetri di altezza per 14 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 360 grammi

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This book seeks to investigate gender differences in final year undergraduates’ employment expectations of their starting jobs, including salary, occupational and working region expectations, and to identify factors that have contributed to gender differences in these expectations. It employs an on-site self-completion questionnaire survey and a follow-up semi-structured interview carried out in a university in Central China. The study adopts the conceptual perspective of ‘choice and constraint’, which means that male and female final year undergraduates are able to make their own choices towards employment expectations; however, their choices of employment expectations are limited by a number of constraints. Empirical studies find that there are gender differences in employment expectations. This study further reveals the influence of gendered economic roles, experienced or perceived sex discrimination in China’s graduate labour market job preferences and parents’ expectations on those gender differences in employment expectations.

Informazioni sull?autore

Jian Zhu is a lecturer in the K. P. Tin Institute of Educational Science, Zhejiang Normal University, China. He earned his PhD in Education from the Moray House School of Education, The University of Edinburgh, UK in 2011. Dr Zhu has published over twenty journal articles and international conference papers in the field of gender issues in China’s higher education and beyond, including comparative higher education. His current research interests include gender issues in China’s higher education and comparative education, with particular reference to inclusivity. He is a principal investigator of the project entitled ‘The Gender Characteristics of Top-level Leaders in China’s «985 Project» Universities’, which is funded by the Ministry of Education, the People’s Republic of China.