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Chapter
Four Women's Education
School
Education for Women
Starting in the 1990s, the Chinese Government instigated
the strategy of reviving the country through science and education,
and gave education the priority in development. The State
increases its investment in education each year and devotes
particular attention to supporting the development of education
in poverty-stricken areas. With the development of Chinese
education, there is a growing proportion of female students
in various levels of schools. The gender gap in education
has been further narrowed. The overall cultural quality of
Chinese women has consequently been increased.
The popularization of nine-year compulsory education
and the Government's concern for the education of girls have
contributed to an even gender proportion in school enrolment.
In 2001, China's school-age children's primary school enrolment
rate was 99.05 percent, and the girls' enrolment rate was
99.01 percent. The dropout rate in primary schools was 0.27
percent, and the dropout rate of girls was 0.31 percent. In
the same year, primary school girls made up 47.33 percent
of the total primary school students; female students in secondary
schools made up 46.49 percent of the total secondary school
students.
In 2003, the population of female college students
totaled 3.97 million, 2.67 million more than in 1998, making
up 43.95 percent of the total number of college students,
six percent higher than the percentage five
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