SCHOOLING TAIWAN WOMEN - EDUCATIONAL-ATTAINMENT IN THE MID-20TH CENTURY

This article presents a study of the impact of educational expansion o n the equality of educational opportunity for men and women in Taiwan. The study found that as the average level of schooling increased duri ng the 45 years covered by the data, severe limitations on females' ac cess to education remained and occurred as early as the compulsory lev el. Marked ethnic differences appeared in the middle of the educationa l hierarchy, as did inequalities of educational opportunity that were due to father's occupational class. Among all the variables considered , father's education proved to be the most powerful predictor of the f our educational transitions examined. Although girls and boys in the l atest cohort received a more equal education than those in earlier coh orts, the class and ethnic group of the more educated children differe d markedly from those of the less educated children, with girls of ''T awianese'' origin losing out to daughters of more privileged fathers.