ABSTRACT
Hong Kong’s economic success is closely wedded to its acclaimed industrious and high-caliber labor force, and education has increasingly become a major yardstick of measurement of the quality of the labor force. In the last four decades Hong Kong has been part of the worldwide trend in educational expansion. This has been accompanied by a rise in the educational attainment of the population as a whole. Women and the lower classes, previously disadvantaged in access to schooling, have benefited from the expansion. However, has full educational equality between the sexes been realized? How does social class background influence a daughter’s educational chances? How does increased educational attainment affect women’s labor force participation? Does investment in education for females yield the same earnings as for males? How does the transition to 1997 affect women’s participation in education and the economy?
