Analysis of Factors Affecting Female College Graduates' Job Satisfaction
ZHANG Zai-sheng1 DONG Lin-qian1.2
1. School of Management and Economics at the Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072，China； 2.School of Economics and Management at the Three Gorges University, Yichang 443000, Hubei Province, China
Abstract：In light of existing literature, this article divides newly recruited college graduates' job satisfaction scale into five factors (work rewards, self-development, work itself, leadership behavior, group cooperation). We find that there is no significant difference between male college graduates and female college graduates in overall job satisfaction, in terms of satisfaction with work rewards, self-development, and work itself. However, there is significant difference in areas of leadership behavior and group cooperation, over which women expressed a higher level of satisfaction than men. Factors that affect female college graduates' job satisfaction mainly involve work rewards, self-development, group cooperation and the type of universities where they have graduated. These four factors produce different characteristics in demographic variables such as profession and types of schools.
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