The Varying Display of "Gender Display"

Yu, Jia; Xie, Yu

doi:10.2753/csa2162-0555440201

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“…Another possibility is that highly educated women may relinquish power on family decisions to focus on their careers (Zuo & Bian, 2005). Housework hours also decrease with urban women's socioeconomic status (Yu & Xie, 2012). Women of lower socioeconomic status may gain expert knowledge by doing housework and acquire the power to make household decisions given their expertise (Shu et al, 2013;Zuo & Bian, 2005).…”

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Women's Education, Intergenerational Coresidence, and Household Decision‐Making in China

Cheng

2018

J of Marriage and Family

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Objective This study examines how intergenerational coresidence modifies the association between women's education and their household decision‐making power in China. Background Past research on how married women's education increases their decision‐making power at home has focused primarily on nuclear families. This article extends prior research by examining how this association varies by household structure. It compares women living with their husbands with those living with both their husbands and parents‐in‐law. Method This article used data from the China Family Panel Studies in 2010 and 2014. It employed marginal structural models to address the concern that certain characteristics selecting women of less power into coresidence with their parents‐in‐law may be endogenous to women's education. Results In nuclear households, women with a higher level of education have a higher probability of having the final say on household decisions. In multigenerational households, however, where women live with their parents‐in‐law, a higher level of education of women is not associated with an increase in women's decision‐making power. Conclusion Coresidence with husbands' parents may undermine the effect of women's education on their household decision‐making power.

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“…Women gain expertise and acquire rights to make mundane and child-related decisions by doing housework and handling child care (Shu et al, 2013;Zuo & Bian, 2005). Women with high socioeconomic status may reduce their housework (Yu & Xie, 2012) and relinquish power on mundane decisions (Zuo & Bian, 2005).…”

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Women's Education, Intergenerational Coresidence, and Household Decision‐Making in China

Cheng

2018

J of Marriage and Family

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“…Although this rate dropped somewhat in the post-reform era, when the Chinese government relaxed its reinforcement of socialist ideals, women's labor force participation rate has remained high, at around 72 percent in the 1990s and 64 percent in the early 2010s (OECD 2015; Wu and Zhou 2015). However, a sharp contrast is found in the domestic sphere, where the gendered division of unpaid domestic labor persists and women continue to shoulder the lion's share of housework (Yu and Xie 2011;Zhang 2017). Previous research indicates that women spend 19.5 and 15.2 hours per week on housework in rural and urban China respectively-three times as much as that of their male counterparts (Yu and Xie 2011).…”

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Patriarchal Hierarchy? Gender, Children’s Housework Time, and Family Structure in Post-Reform China

2018

Chinese Sociological Review

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“…It refers not only to living conditions, but more important to how individuals think and feel about their lives. Despite documentation on intrahousehold gender inequality in terms of time spent on domestic labor (Brown, ; Qi & Dong, ; Qi, Li, & Liu, ; Wang, ; Yu & Xie, ; Zhang & Farley, ) and household consumption (Brown, ; A. Sun & Zhao, ; Wang, ), we still know little about how this inequality affects the well‐being of household members.…”

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When Family Property Becomes Individual Property: Intrahousehold Property Ownership and Women's Well‐Being in China

Zang

2020

J of Marriage and Family

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Objective This study examines the impact of the 2011 judicial interpretation to the Chinese Marriage Law, which altered property rights, on the well‐being of husbands and wives. Background Although the focus on macro‐level gender inequality continues, relatively few studies have focused on intrahousehold gender inequality in China. Method Using data from the China Family Panel Studies (80,162 observations of 22,541 individuals), a nationally representative survey of Chinese households, this study uses a difference‐in‐differences strategy to compare the outcomes of spouses in households where only the husband's name is on the deed with those where the spouses have equal homeownership status. Results In the short term, the 2011 judicial interpretation to the Marriage Law led to diminished well‐being for women in a typical Chinese household where the deed to the marital home is in the husband's name only. However, in the long term, the adverse effect for women weakened, which is likely because couples turned to adaptive behaviors more in line with premarital agreements and traditional practices, nullifying any effects caused by the reform. No significant effects of the reform were found for men living households where only the wife's name is on the deed. Conclusion This study demonstrates how a seemingly gender‐neutral policy can generate gendered consequences. It is therefore critical that policy makers consider the implications of intrahousehold inequality.

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The Varying Display of "Gender Display"

Cited by 50 publications

References 51 publications

Women's Education, Intergenerational Coresidence, and Household Decision‐Making in China

Women's Education, Intergenerational Coresidence, and Household Decision‐Making in China

Patriarchal Hierarchy? Gender, Children’s Housework Time, and Family Structure in Post-Reform China

When Family Property Becomes Individual Property: Intrahousehold Property Ownership and Women's Well‐Being in China

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