The Contemporary Value Of Chinese Women’s College

During the long and profound history of human beings, the fundamental premise of gender equality will always be the popular delivery of higher education to female. In recent years, the grim employment situation for female graduates has encouraged people to create new ways to train high-level female talents. Against the current background of diversified education, women’s colleges, being a vital part of the international higher education system, bear great responsibilities in training high-level female talents and optimizing school managements in women’s colleges. And such training also demands us to reconsider the current value of women’s colleges now.My study will take an example of a certain women’s college in Jiangsu Province and, through the comparative study in the aspects of sex-role attitude and possible selves in careers among female undergraduates in women’s colleges and coeducational colleges, discuss the advantages of women’s colleges in talents training, advanced gender cultural education as well as promoting diversified education. In addition, I will express my thoughts of the future development paths for Chinese women’s colleges on the basis of careful analysis of the current situation of domestic women’s colleges and mature experience of foreign women’s colleges.My study clearly demonstrates that, firstly, in general, among female undergraduates, leadership and attitudes towards gender discrimination is a bit of modernized, while gender stereotypes and attitudes towards career distributions is quite conservative, which uncover their contractive gender attitudes. The score of their possible selves are above4with a promising development but an uneven situation. Secondly, students, in the aspects of gender attitudes and possible selves of careers, in women’s colleges and normal colleges don’t demonstrate clear differences, but there exist an explicit difference in varied dimensions of possible selves. The reasons include the emphasis of gender equality of higher education in China, the equal gender policies. My study focuses on a background of coeducation. And we can see there is no explicit difference in gender education, career assistance and accompany. Thirdly, compared with those in normal colleges, students in women’s colleges have a higher standard of balanced selves, a lower standard of self expectations, greater fearful ego as well as more objective auto gnosis and vocational evaluations. They score more in the aspect of creation in self expectations, but less in vocational fearful ego. My study clearly shows that students in women’s colleges have advantages in creativity and abilities of self cognitive. But they still need to be nurtured in improving self-confidence.Last but not least, our domestic women’s colleges are still in the exploratory stage with varied problems of small quantities, a small scale, a grim situation of enrollment, insufficient professional constructions, as well as convergent concepts but not so prominent characteristics. As a result, my study, through drawing upon representative educational experience and combining with our domestic development history and current situations, comes up with four proposals for domestic women’s colleges so as to improve our all-dimensional training for high-level female talents our society need.