Interviews with Chinese Australian women highlight the impacts of cultural and gendered identities on the educational opportunities and achievements of daughters in 1930s to 1960s Australia. Some women recalled being prepared as children for their later role as dutiful wives – tasked with domestic duties, working in family businesses, given limited educational opportunities, and made aware of their role to be ‘married off’. Others recalled equal treatment with their brothers and being encouraged to strive for educational success. This variety of experience points to the diversity of Chinese Australian families and the ways in which Confucian/patriarchal systems were negotiated within them.

对澳大利亚华裔妇女的采访强调了 1930 年代至 1960 年代澳大利亚文化和性别身份对女儿的教育机会和成就的影响。一些妇女回忆说，她们在孩提时代就已经做好了成为孝妻的准备——承担家务、在家族企业工作、受教育机会有限，并意识到自己的角色是“嫁出去”。其他人回忆起与他们的兄弟平等对待并被鼓励为教育成功而努力。这种多样化的经历表明澳大利亚华人家庭的多样性以及儒家/父权制度在他们内部协商的方式。