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Zhang, Yuping; Kao, Grace; Hannum, Emily – Comparative Education Review, 2007
In this article, the authors focus on a poor rural area in northwestern China and investigates whether the gender attitudes of mothers can be linked to their plans for educating their own children in the future. Using recent longitudinal data from the Gansu Survey of Children and Families (GSCF), a survey of rural 9-12-year-old children, families,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Characteristics, Rural Areas, Mother Attitudes
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Hannum, Emily; Kong, Peggy; Zhang, Yuping – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
In this paper, we investigate the gender gap in education in rural northwest China. We first discuss parental perceptions of abilities and appropriate roles for girls and boys; parental concerns about old-age support; and parental perceptions of different labor market outcomes for girls' and boys' education. We then investigate gender disparities…
Descriptors: Mothers, Daughters, Educational Attitudes, Educational Attainment