Gender Segregation on Campuses: A Cross-Time Comparison of the Academic Pipeline in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan

Women’s participation in s cience has been a major concern among Western feminists since the 1970s. Numerous European countries have collaborat ed to publish She Figures once every three years , which collects and compares the basic education and employment statistics for women  in science and technology. However, such cross-country comparison is still rare in Asia. In this research , we collected statistics on the composition of students and faculty members in higher education in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan from 2004 to 2014 . Then we compared the patterns of gender segregation between European Union (EU) and the East Asia (EA) regions, followed by the comparison among the three EA countries. 0 0 1 218 1246 NSYSU 10 2 1462 14.0 Normal 0 10 pt 0 2 false false false EN-US ZH-TW X-NONE ([{£¥‘“‵〈《「『【〔〝︵︷︹︻︽︿﹁﹃﹙﹛﹝（｛ !),.:;?]}¢·–—’”•‥…‧′╴、。〉》」』】〕〞︰︱︳︴︶︸︺︼︾﹀﹂﹄﹏﹐﹑﹒﹔﹕﹖﹗﹚﹜﹞！），．：；？］｜｝､ /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:表格內文; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-font-kerning:1.0pt;} We documented that gender participation in science in the three  EA countries has basically follow ed the patterns of the EU nations in terms of decreasing vertical segregation and stabilizing horizontal segregation. However the degree of segregation in EA is higher than that in EU-28, particularly in E ngineering. Among the three EA countries, moreover, it is evident that South Korea has made better progress than the other two in the past decade in terms of women’s participation in  science, particularly at the Master’s  D egree level. Yet the increase of  women ’s participation does not necessarily eliminat e gender segregation in science as both sexes still follow the car e/ technology division  trend in their disciplinary choice s , which merit s more attention.