What Constrains Your Choice?

A Quantitative Research on the Impact of Gender Stereotypes on Major Selection

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211020.125How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Gender Stereotypes, Major Selection, Gender Role, Implicit Theories

Abstract

This paper explored the impact of gender stereotypes on Chinese high school students’ and college students’ professional choices. The quantitative study used a questionnaire in Wenjuanxing and collected 316 valid responses to identify what kinds of factors will affect students to determine their specialized subject. To a certain extent, the characteristics involved in the survey do partially confirm that gender stereotypes will influence students’ professional choices, but the effect is more implicit. Male and female students have different attitudes towards gender stereotypes. Major choice has little to do with Occupational gender stereotypes, mainly due to the traditional gender role. All findings offer an insight into the elements affecting students’ decisions on major selection, a solidification of traditional gender role recognition, and a lack of gender equality education in the high school stage.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jieying Peng
AU  - Yifan Wang
AU  - Runqiu Wu
AU  - Mengyao Yuan
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/21
TI  - What Constrains Your Choice?
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Relations and Social Sciences (ICPRSS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 33
EP  - 38
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211020.125
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211020.125
ID  - Peng2021
ER  -