"Mulan" Effect:The Effect of Sibling Status on Female Academic Success

• Main Authors: Tin-chieh Lee, 李婷潔
• Other Authors: Ming-yeh Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64806315229392199682

碩士 === 東吳大學 === 社會學系 === 95 === Although there are many researches on gender and educational opportunities, few of them pay attention to the influence of declining fertility rate on women’ educational achievement in Taiwan. The study attempts to examine whether Taiwanese parents will turn to pick the eldest daughter to be the son-like successor (It’s called “Mulan” in the current study) and therefore contribute to Mulan’s academic success. The data employed in this study is from longitudinal survey research “Taiwan Youth Project” which is conducted by Academia Sinica. The sample was randomly drawn from junior high schools in Taipei and collected from both parents and children. The sample for the analyses consists 722 female adolescents(students). The logistic regression is used to test the hypotheses in this study. The results partially support the hypotheses. There are two main findings. First, Mulan gets more chances entering male-dominant educational route than other sibling status females. Second, the more chances of entering male-dominant educational route are basically due to parent’s higher educational expectation and Mulan’s self identity as the target of parent’s educational investment. In addition to displaying and discussing the research findings, this thesis gives conceptual and methodological suggestions for both education and gender studies.