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| China | Hong Kong | Japan | Republic of Korea | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 1980 | 1970 | 1980 | 1970 | 1980 | |
| Primary Level Enrollment (000s) | ||||||
| Female (1980: 44.6%) (1992: 46.6%) |
65174 | 264 | 4706 | 5765 | 2755 | 2745 |
| Male | 81096 | 287 | 4852 | 5986 | 2995 | 2913 |
| Secondary Enrollment (000s) | ||||||
| Female (1980: 39.4%) (1992: 40.9%) |
22341 | 219 | 4281 | 4719 | 724 | 1886 |
| Male | 34437 | 232 | 4386 | 4802 | 1183 | 2298 |
| % Secondary Enrollment (vocational) | ||||||
| Female | 2 | - | 17 | 14 | 11 | 20 |
| Male | 2 | - | 21 | 16 | 16 | 21 |
| Third Level Enrollment (000s) | ||||||
| Female (1980: 23.3%) (1992: 33.7%) |
270 | 18 | 513 | 791 | 49 | 148 |
| Male | 891 | 44 | 1307 | 1621 | 153 | 467 |
| Combined Primary-Secondary Enrollment Ratio | ||||||
| Female | 77 | 82 | 92 | 98 | 71 | 91 |
| Male | 98 | 80 | 93 | 97 | 80 | 97 |
| % Total Population (0-14) | ||||||
| Female | 18 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 20 | 16 |
| Male | 19 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 22 | 17 |
NOTES:
The original online table -- without the color overlay on percentage figures -- was prepared in December 1997, based on Robinson (1992:245), for my Autumn Quarter 1997 offering of Chinese 889. Seminar in Chinese Linguistics: Language and Gender. The 1970 and 1980 enrollment figures were compiled by J. Robinson from the United Nations, Selected Statistics and Indicators on the Status of Women. The percentage figures are added by me in red and in bold for females for 1980 based on the proportion of females enrolled at that given level for that given year out of the total student population enrolled at that level for that year. In addition to the statistics on percentage of total population given in the table, the percentage of the overall female population in China (PRC) in 1980 was 48.55%, based on statistics I have from the Beijing Review (1989). For an update on comparisons with the percentages for the enrollment figures given above in red and bold for females for 1980 in China, I put in red the corresponding percentages for 1992; that is, roughly a decade later. These statistics are added to this webpage in October 2000. Thanks go to OSU Chinese Studies Librarian, Li Guoqing, for very obligingly emailing the 1992 statistics at the last minute in April 1998 for inclusion in the concluding remarks in Chan (1998).
References:
Beijing Review Press. 1989. Changes and Development in China (1949-1989). Beijing: Guoji Shudian.Chan, Marjorie K.M. 1998. "Sentence particles je and jek in Cantonese and their distribution across gender and sentence types." In: Engendering Communication: Proceedings of the Fifth Berkeley Women and Language Conference. April 24-26, 1998, Berkeley, California. Edited by Suzanne Wertheim, Ashlee Bailey, and Monica Corston-Oliver. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Women and Language Group. Pages 117-128. (Statistical information and observations are in the concluding remarks concerning the socio-cultural setting and the Chinese language.)
Robinson, Jean C. 1992. East Asian women and the paradoxes of development: a retrospective on the 1980's." In: Understanding Women: The Challenge of Cross-Cultural Perspectives (= Papers in Comparative Studies 7, The Ohio State University). Edited by Marilyn Robinson Waldman, Artemis Leontis, and Muge Galin. Pages 223-249.
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