Gender issues in computer education for application-oriented majors: A Chinese perspective

Gender issues are studied in depth with the case study and survey. Balanced gender ratio, significant gender divergence in the relevance of employment and major, gender balance in competency, gender difference in learning styles, gender imbalance in perception of women´s fitness in information industry, gender bias in major interest and employment intention, are detected in Chinese computer science education for application-oriented undergraduate. By contrast with oversea findings and status quo, gender issues in Chinese computer science education are not caused by gender but social stereotype and industry culture. Solutions to gender issues are proposed.