Author: 陳奕熹Publisher:
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Category : Family planning
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Family and Work of Middle-class Women with Two Children Under the Universal Two-child Policy in Urban China
Author: 陳奕熹Fertility and Childcare in East Asia
Author: Xiaogang WuPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040032702
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
This textbook explores recent research on the topics of gender inequalities, intergenerational support, and family in select East Asian societies, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan. East Asian societies have been undergoing rapid economic development over the last three decades, whether gender (couple) relations and families in East Asian societies have also been undergoing transformations remain less clear. The chapters in this book uncover dynamic and evolving couple and intergenerational relationships within families in East Asia, together with the persistent impact on time use, housework and childcare. They provide a rich source for understanding gender dynamics, intergenerational relations, and childbearing and rearing in East Asia, at a time when it is expected that families and gender relations in East Asia will continue to evolve with characteristics of both modern gender egalitarian values and traditional family obligations. A rare and valuable resource, this textbook will be a key resource for researchers, scholars and practitioners of Sociology, Development Studies, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Comparative studies who wish to study gender and family relations in East Asia, a rapidly developing region with a shared Confucian culture. The chapters in this volume were originally published in Chinese Sociological Review.
The Universal Two-child Policy and the Motherhood Penalty
Author: Tianyu ChuPublisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this paper, I investigate the impact of changes in potential fertility on labor outcomes and the gender gap using changes in family planning policies in China. My study employs the China Family Panel Survey (CFPS), a biannual, longitudinal data set and two difference-in-difference models to analyze the impact of the introduction of the Universal Two-Child Policy in 2015 on fertility and labor force participation. Results from both specifications suggest that the relaxation of the strict controls on the number of children a woman can have is positively correlated with actual fertility. Furthermore, I find that the Universal Two-Child Policy caused a significant decrease in women's labor force participation rate. Using two difference-in-difference models with variation in the extent to which the change in eligibility was visible to employers, I conclude that part of the decrease in labor force participation can be attributed to demand-side discrimination against women rather than solely due to women voluntarily leaving the labor force to have another child. Finally, men experience no change in the likelihood of being in the labor force, confirming that the policy indeed contributes to the gender gap in labor force participation.
Accepting Population Control
Author: Cecilia Nathansen MilwertzPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780700704576
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations
Author: Kailing XiePublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811611394
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This book takes a feminist approach to analyse the lives of well-educated urban Chinese women, who were raised to embody the ideals of a modern Chinese nation and are largely the beneficiaries of the policy changes of the post-Mao era. It explores young women’s gendered attitudes to and experiences of marriage, reproductive choices, careers and aspirations for a good life. It sheds light on what keeps mainstream Chinese middle-class women conforming to the current gender regime. It illuminates the contradictory effects of neoliberal techniques deployed by a familial authoritarian regime on these women’s striving for success in urban China, and argues that, paradoxically, women’s individualistic determination to succeed has often led them onto the path of conformity by pursuing exemplary norms which fit into the party-state’s agenda.
The Grandmothers' Farewell to Childcare Provision Under China's Two-Child Policy: Evidence from Guangzhou Middle-Class Families
Author: Xiaohui ZhongMaking Motherhood Work
Author: Caitlyn CollinsPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691202400
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
The work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and social policies aren't helping. Of all Western industrialized countries, the United States ranks dead last for supportive work-family policies. Can American women look to Europe for solutions? Making Motherhood Work draws on interviews that Caitlyn Collins conducted over five years with 135 middle-class working mothers in Sweden, Germany, Italy, and the United States. She explores how women navigate work and family given the different policy supports available in each country. Taking readers into women's homes, neighborhoods, and workplaces, Collins shows that mothers' expectations depend on context and that policies alone cannot solve women's struggles. With women held to unrealistic standards, the best solutions demand that we redefine motherhood, work, and family.
Work and Family in Urban China
Author: Jiping ZuoPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137554657
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This book examines a three-way interaction among market, state, and family in China’s recent market reform. It depicts transformations in urban women’s experiences with both paid and non-paid domestic work. The book challenges China’s free-market approach and demonstrates its negative impacts on women’s work and family experiences by revealing labor commodification processes and work-to-family conflicts as the state abandons its commitment to public welfare. Using interview data collected from 165 women of three different cohorts in urban China during the 2000-2008 period, this study uncovers the revival of traditional gendered family roles among urban women and men as one of their strategies to resist market brutality and their struggles to balance work and family demands. The book also explores urban women’s non-market definitions of marital equality, and highlights theoretical and policy implications concerning market efficiency, marital equality, and the state’s role in protecting public good.
Women, Family and the Chinese Socialist State, 1950-2010
Author: Xiaofei KangPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004415939
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A rare window for the English speaking world to learn how scholars in China understand and interpret central issues pertaining to women and family from the founding of the People’s Republic to the reform era.
Only Hope
Author: Vanessa L. FongPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804753302
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This is the first book to examine the high-pressure lives of teenagers born under China's one-child family policy. Based on a survey of 2,273 students and 27 months of participant-observation in Chinese homes and schools, it explores the social, economic, and psychological consequences of the one-child policy.