Abstract
In this paper, I statistically researched the diversity of Patriarchy and the effect of higher education on the Patriarchy in East Asia and Southeast Asia society where the family system and the sense of value is rapidly changing in the era of “Compressed Modernity”. At first, I regarded Patriarchy as the combination of “Patermal authority” and “Gender role attitudes” quoted by the research of Sechiyama who studied Patriarchy of East Asia, and arranged it into four areas: 1 Patriarchalism, 2 Equal partnership as well as paternal authority, 3 Egalitarianism and 4 Liberalism as well as gender role. Second, I analyzed the average score of these two variables from the data of 6 Asian countries, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, Vietnam, and Thailand. Third, I analyzed the effect on the Patriarchal values, in addition, I did multivariate statistical analysis controlling some variables like age and so on.
Consequently, these 6 societies are categorized: China and Taiwan are categorized as “Patriarchalism”, Korea is categorized as “Equal partnership as well as paternal authority”, Japan is categorized as “Egalitarianism” and Vietnam and Thailand are categorized as “Liberalism as well as Gender role”. Furthermore, I pointed out that the effect of higher education on patriarchal values is different between 6 societies, especially, I also pointed out that there is a large difference between East Asian countries and South Asian Countries.
