Choices and Constraints: Gender Differences in the Employment Expectations of Final Year Undergraduates in a University in Central China

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 a...

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Main Author: Zhu, Jian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften 2014
Series:Of Empire and the City
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Summary: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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (254 pages)
ISBN:9783035305746
9783034308649

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