Abstract
A great deal of literature has indicated that, quantitatively, women’s educational attainment has been dramatically improved in recent years. However, qualitatively, whether the pattern and trend of sex-segregation on major subjects or fields of study for higher education still remains unanswered. In this study, we use Taiwan 1972–2003 Educational Statistics of Higher Education public data to compute the index of dissimilarity of fields of study by gender, and to demonstrate the changing patterns and trends of sex-segregation for higher education. Our results indicate that some fields of study have been significantly separated by gender, others have not. And this fact has varied much among different institutes and different time periods. In addition, our analyses show that sex-segregation on fields of study are associated with institutional factors such as the configuration of departments and/or institutes of higher education; but not associated with the expansion of higher education.
| Keywords: | sex-segregation; major subjects; fields of study; higher education |
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