This study investigated how female students in National University of Education determine
their career planning in teaching profession. In-depth interviews with 15 female students, who
were attending two National University of Education, were conducted for the purpose of this
study. All interviews were audio-taped, transcribed and analysed according to Spradly’s(1979)
domain analysis, texonomic analysis, and componential analysis.
Parents encouraged them to be a teacher because of stable income, enough time for home
management, and less discrimination against women in the work place. Attending National
University of Education, the students found it hard to change their career and realized that
teaching was a good choice for female. Moreover, the students were able to understand the
value of teaching from University experience, even they had weak motivation to be a teacher at
first. Thus they accepted teaching as a promising future job.
Most of them had diverse career plan in education field, such as professional teachers,
educational administrators, and other professional jobs related child development or curriculum
development. Achievement orientation and gender role were the important themes which
occurred repeatedly when female students in National University of Education planned their
future life in their work.
Even they had achievement oriented aspiration and hoped equal status with men in the job
and family, they also accepted traditional domestic role in the family as women’s responsibility.
Their recognition about gender role was partly consistent with traditional gender division of
labor, but partly inconsistent with it.