Reviewing the Employment Difficulties of Chinese Female College Students Majored in Humanities

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211020.136How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Gender theory, Gender Inequality, Employment Environment, Society’s Gender Bias, Female College Students

Abstract

Gender theory has developed from sex to gender with the progress of the times and social culture. People rely on it for gender identity and gender expression in daily life. However, gender inequality caused by gender stereotypes still exists in large numbers. Especially in the work and employment of women, they are still limited by their self-gender identity and social-cultural gender culture in their contemporary study and life. Therefore, this study discusses the current discrimination and prejudice faced by women based on secondary data analysis. Simply, it explores the reasons why female college students majoring in humanities and social sciences suffer from gender inequality and discrimination, as well as the challenges and improvement measures they face in the employment environment. By reviewing domestic and foreign research literature, this study found that the root of female gender inequality and discrimination lies in patriarchy. In addition, the study also finds that China’s social and cultural concepts and different expectations of men and women limit the employment choices of female college students. Similarly, the persuasion of family members and the yearning of female college students for ideal occupations and developed regions are also important factors influencing employment. Based on these findings, this study makes recommendations from three perspectives, which help female college students majoring in humanities and social sciences improve their employability and change society’s gender bias against women. First, the female colleges must give full play to their academic advantages and establish a correct outlook on employment. Second, the country and government need to give strong support. Third, companies and employers change recruitment conditions to accept more high-quality women.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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  - Qianqian Huang
AU  - Ruiyi Sun
AU  - Yixuan Zhang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/21
TI  - Reviewing the Employment Difficulties of Chinese Female College Students Majored in Humanities
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Relations and Social Sciences (ICPRSS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 95
EP  - 100
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211020.136
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211020.136
ID  - Huang2021
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