Seminar: Gender Inequality in Employment in China

QUANTITATIVE SOCIAL SCIENCE SEMINAR:
Title:	Gender Inequality in Employment: China's Urban Labor Markets in Transition, 1982-2005
Presenter:	SONG, Xi Mphil student in social science division, HKUST
Abstract:
This paper examines the trend in gender inequality in employment in urban China since the economic reform. Based on the analyses of the micro-sample data from the 1982, 1990 and 2000 population censuses and the 2005 mini-census, we found that: (1) employment rate in urban China has declined dramatically in the 1990s, against the trend of rapid economic growth in the same period; (2) the drop is particularly severe for women increase in women's education in China, although women's education has increased dramatically at the same time, and eductaion is supposed to promote employment. (3) while there is no significant difference in the determination in employment between men and women in the 1980s, factors such as marriage, childbearing and old parents have become barriers for women's employment in the 1990s. We conclude that the fundamental changes in urban labor markets have reshaped the gender roles and gender stratification in contemporary China that have been long influenced by socialist gender egalitarianism.
Date	Time	Venue
April 12th. Monday	3:00pm - 4:30pm	Rm 3362 (Lifts 13-15)
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