Gender Segregation on Campuses: A Cross-Time Comparison of the Academic Pipeline in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan

Authors

  • Yen-Wen Peng National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
  • Ginko Kawano Yamagata University
  • Eunkyoung Lee Chonbuk National University
  • Li-Ling Tsai National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
  • Kae Takarabe Chubu University
  • Miwa Yokoyama Ochanomizu University
  • Hisako Ohtsubo Nihon University
  • Mariko Ogawa Professor Emeritus Faculty of Humanities, Law and Economics, Mie University 1577 Kurima, Machiya-cho, Tsu-city, Mie 514-8507 JAPAN Email:ogawa@human.mie-u.ac.jp / mariko.o@vesta.ocn.ne.jp

Keywords:

Gender and science, higher education, vertical segregation, horizontal segregation, leaky pipeline, East Asia

Abstract

Women’s participation in science has been a major concern among Western feminists since the 1970s. Numerous European countries have collaborated to publish She Figures once every three years, which collects and compares the basic education and employment statistics for women&in science and technology. However, such cross-country comparison is still rare in Asia. In this research, we collected statistics on the composition of students and faculty members in higher education in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan from 2004 to 2014. Then we compared the patterns of gender segregation between European Union (EU) and the East Asia (EA) regions, followed by the comparison among the three EA countries.

We documented that gender participation in science in the three&EA countries has basically followed the patterns of the EU nations in terms of decreasing vertical segregation and stabilizing horizontal segregation. However the degree of segregation in EA is higher than that in EU-28, particularly in Engineering. Among the three EA countries, moreover, it is evident that South Korea has made better progress than the other two in the past decade in terms of women’s participation in&science, particularly at the Master’s&Degree level. Yet the increase of&women’s participation does not necessarily eliminate gender segregation in science as both sexes still follow the care/technology division&trend in their disciplinary choices, which merits more attention.

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Author Biography

  • Ginko Kawano, Yamagata University

    Professor of Faculty of Education, Art and Science

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    Assistant to the Vice President (Gender Equality)

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Published

22-05-2017

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2017)

Section

Research and theoretical papers

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Gender Segregation on Campuses: A Cross-Time Comparison of the Academic Pipeline in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. (2017). International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 9(1), 3-24. https://genderandset.open.ac.uk/index.php/genderandset/article/view/409