Author(s)

Yingmei Guo, Xiaoli Zhu

Corresponding Author

Yingmei Guo

Abstract

Women teachers have been increasingly growing to be an important part in human resources in universities and colleges, as the higher education develops rapidly. Based on the statistical data of the Ministry of Education, the paper employed size-standardized index of dissimilarity (Ds) to measure the professional titles, being as tutors of master’s degree candidates and other academic development segregation and changes of full-time women teachers respectively in national regular institutions of higher learning within ten years from 2007 to 2016, and analyzed the occupation gender segregation of women teachers in Chinese regular institutions of higher learning from the macro perspective. The results indicate that the occupation gender segregation of women teachers is not significant, but the vertical segregation is significant; the gender segregation degree of being tutors of master’s degree candidates is larger than the professional title segregation; the gender segregation index of being tutors of master’s degree candidates varies relatively slightly, while the professional title segregation index varies relatively greatly. These results show that the academic and career development space of campus women teachers is not expanded and optimized when the number of women teachers is growing.

Keywords

Institutions of higher learning, occupation gender segregation, women teachers, career.