Women in China

In China women are facing rising university entry barriers in undergraduate and postgraduate programs. Women in China are starting to shave their heads and protests Chinese universities because they must score higher than men for entry exams into universities. In Beijing, Chinese universities, women increasingly must score higher than men to get in and face unofficial but widespread gender quotas that favor men. A group women got together and share their head in public and gave it education ministry a “zero” score for fairness. Education law forbids discrimination on several grounds, including gender. Several universities were question for their entry exams, but declined to respond for request for information. An official from the teaching office at the China University of political science and law said the school did not have gender-based enrollment policies. For criminology, she said “females business Are less than 15% of students because of the nature of their future career. The women were score so well then the practice a higher percentage was being admitted.  According to Chinese news reports due to rising number of women getting into universities, they were starting to outstrip men in some areas, especially languages. In 2004, women made up 43.8% of undergrad students, rising to 49.6 by 2012. In master programs, women made up 44.1% of students in 2004, rising to 50.3 by 2010. Among doctoral candidates in 2010, however, just over 35.4% were women, up by 31.3 in 2004. One of the biggest things in the China University of political science and law, the bar is that 632 points for women but 588 for men. This shows a clear gap between how the universities treat the men and women when it comes to entry exams. Another issue discussed on campuses, women in some art facilities in particular may heavy outnumber men, making up to 70% of students in some classes. Mr. Tang said “that many jobs that once required physical labor have been replaced by laborsaving science and technologies. That had remove women’s physical disadvantage while in terms of wisdom boys may not have particularly obvious advantages”.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/world/asia/08iht-educlede08.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=internationaleducation&