IRIS NRC is proud to co-sponsor the EPS Network for International and Comparative Education’s Fall series. We hope that you join us for the fourth of five events: “A Paradox of Gender Differences in ICT Self-Efficacy: A Comparative Study of 49 Countries,” with Hyunjoon Park.
Using the individual-level data of 15-year-old students from 49 countries that participated in PISA 2022, combined with country-level data of Gender Inequality Index, we show that gender differences in ICT (Information and Communication Technology) self-efficacy favoring boys over girls are larger, not smaller, in countries with lower levels of overall gender inequality (in health, empowerment, and labor market). We argue that this paradox of gender differences in ICT self-efficacy is partially due to between-country variation in gender differences in affinity with science and teachers’ encouragement of mathematics.
About Hyunjoon Park
Hyunjoon Park is Korea Foundation Professor of Sociology and Director of the James Joo-Jin Kim Center for Korean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005. Park is interested in education, family and social stratification in cross-national comparative perspective, focusing on South Korea and other East Asian societies. His work highlights how influences of schools and families on children’s education are contingent upon contexts of institutional arrangements of educational systems, public policy, and demographic changes. Park has published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers in leading journals including Demography, Social Science & Medicine, Social Forces, Journal of Marriage and Family, and Annual Review of Sociology, among others. He is the author of the solo-authored book, Re-Evaluating Education in Japan and Korea: De- mystifying Stereotypes (2013 Routledge). He coauthored the book, Diversity and the Transition to Adulthood in America (2022 University of California Press) with Phoebe Ho and Grace Kao.
