Journal of Education and Psychology

Abstract

According to Jacobs’ (1995) study, because of the impact that feministic education has had on schools in the United States, there are more and more female students in colleges who choose to major in science or engineering, thus reducing departmental gender segregation in recent years. The present study analyzed the data of “Education Statistics of Taiwan” in 1983, 1989, 1996, and found that departmental gender segregation has be come less and less noticeable for these years. The main cause of this trend is that the rate of females who major in literature has decreased rapidly. They tend to major in teaching or nursing instead of science or engineering. In fact, the rate of females who major in science or engineering shows no increase for these years. The present study also analyzed the data of “Survey of Social Change in Taiwan” in 1984, 1992, 1997, and found that the occupational gender segregation in labor market of Taiwan has been enlarging from 1984 to 1997. The main cause of this trend is that the females tend to obtain female-dominated occupations where prestige is higher. Further analysis indicated that, although the educational level and occupational prestige of females have been improving, the rate of their engaging in female-dominated occupation does not show a tendency to decrease. The analysis also told us, even though the females have caught up with the males in educational level and occupational prestige, their average earnings remained less than seventy percent of the males’ in 1997.

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