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ERIC Number: EJ1198229
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 19
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0954-0253
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How Flexible Gender Identities Give Young Women Advantages in China's New Economy
Kim, Sung won; Brown, Kari-Elle; Fong, Vanessa L.
Gender and Education, v30 n8 p982-1000 2018
In this article, we examine how a cohort of urban youth born under China's one-child policy have developed flexible gender identities through their childrearing aspirations and educational and occupational narratives, choices, and trajectories between 1999 and 2014. Drawing on surveys of 406 respondents conducted in 1999, 2012-2013, and 2013-2014, and interviews of 48 of those respondents in 2011-2014, we argue that our female research participants were more able to produce flexible gender identities than their male counterparts, and that China's new market economy increasingly rewards youth who are flexible enough to adjust to rapidly changing circumstances, an approach more compatible with the flexible gender identities produced by young women than the more rigid gender identities produced by young men.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: China
Grant or Contract Numbers: BCS0845748; BCS1303404; BCS1357439