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13 Aug 2018
According to Ministry of Education figures, women accounted for only 38.63 per cent of overall PhD students in China in 2016, but accounted for 50.6 per cent of all postgraduates.
Some observers say marriage and children change women’s priorities, but others point to the structure of China’s higher education system.
“There is a misogynist rhetoric against female PhDs who are labelled as a ‘third...