TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jian Zhu
PY  - 2014
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783035305746
TI  - Choices and Constraints
T2  - Gender Differences in the Employment Expectations of Final Year Undergraduates in a University in Central China
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0574-6
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1052555
N2  - This book seeks to investigate gender differences in final year undergraduates’ employment expectations of their starting jobs, including salary, occupational and working region expectations, and to identify factors that have contributed to gender differences in these expectations. It employs an on-site self-completion questionnaire survey and a follow-up semi-structured interview carried out in a university in Central China. The study adopts the conceptual perspective of ‘choice and constraint’, which means that male and female final year undergraduates are able to make their own choices towards employment expectations; however, their choices of employment expectations are limited by a number of constraints. Empirical studies find that there are gender differences in employment expectations. This study further reveals the influence of gendered economic roles, experienced or perceived sex discrimination in China’s graduate labour market job preferences and parents’ expectations on those gender differences in employment expectations.
KW  - salary, economic roles, sex discrimination
LA  - English
ER  -