The Empirical Research On The Issue Of Hardship For Female Graduate Employment

As higher education scale expands and graduate employment system reform deepens, the hardship for female graduate employment in terms of gender difference has gained much attention. Existing research work has concluded that gender characteristic indeed affects the employment of female graduate students, while differ in the factors resulting in hardship for female graduate employment. The limitations of the existing research work are that most of them are qualitative descriptions and the analysis of contributing factors characterized as being macroscopic and more depending on subjective judgment. This paper attempts to empirically analyze the issue of hardship for female graduate employment, by quantitatively analyzing the impact of gender over the process of female graduate employment and evidencing whether gender discrimination is the chief cause of hardship for female graduate employment or not.Based on the survey data, this paper firstly concludes the characteristics of female graduate employment, by statistically describing the male/female features in terms of human capital, personal characteristics and employment, and comparatively analyzing various factors which affect employment of male and female graduates.Secondly based on micro data, this paper, which adopts logisitic regression model and survival model, respectively analyzes gender differences in the odd ratio of employment and the unemployment duration for graduates.At last, we apply Oaxaca equation to make Oaxaca decomposition of the gender gap of unemployment duration between female and maleThis paper obtains following conclusions: (1) Gender difference exists in the process of graduate employment. (2)Gender significantly affects odds ratio of employment opportunities and unemployment duration for graduates. (3)Moreover, male and female circumstances also certainly differ in terms of the factors that affect the odds ratio and unemployment duration for graduates. (4) Unemployment duration caused by gender discrimination occupies about 84 percent of all the gender gap. Therefore, the chief reason of the hardship for women graduate employment is gender discrimination. Corresponding suggestions and recommendations are provided.