女子高等教育观念的审视

Examining the Concept of Women's Higher Education

世界上,女子接受高等教育迄今不到两百年的历史,但是社会对于女子是否应接受高等教育却存在无用论、从属论、首位论等不同的认识,这些认识反映了男女有别、男尊女卑、男强女弱、男主女从等社会性别文化。在女子高等教育得到极大发展的今天,虽然人们不再主张女子高等教育无用论,但是由于传统的男女不平等观念仍然占据人们的头脑,女子高等教育从属论仍然变相地以各种形式存在着,而女子高等教育首位论中忽略女子政治权利的一面也因其主张女子受教育权利而没有受到批判。社会长期存在的性别文化观念仍是今天女子高等教育领域中问题的根源。

It is less than two hundred years since women first began receiving higher education, but there are still several opinions on whether women should have higher education, including the ＂useless theory＂, ＂affiliate theory＂, ＂the first theory＂ and so on. Behind these opinions are such social gender concepts as the differences between men and women and the superiority of men over women. Although the ＂useless theory＂ no longer meets with much agreement since the development of women＇ s higher education, the ＂affiliate theory＂ and ＂the first theory＂ are still to be critically examined. The traditional concept of inequality between men and women still occupies people＇ s minds, posing a problem to the field of women＇ s higher education.