scholarly journals The impact of China’s one-child policy on intergenerational and gender relations

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 360-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Hu ◽  
Xuezhu Shi
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
One Child Policy ◽  
Child Policy ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

CHINA'S ONE-CHILD POLICY AND GENDER EQUALITY:

1988 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-242
Author(s):  
WILLIAM R. LAVELY
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
One Child Policy ◽  
Child Policy ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals The Effect of China’s One Child Policy on Sex Selection, Family Size, and the School Enrolment of Daughters

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Qian
Keyword(s):  
Family Size ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Sex Selection ◽  
School Enrolment ◽  
Child Quality ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
One Child Policy ◽  
Child Policy ◽  
The Impact

A large economics literature provides evidence that parents trade-off the quantity of children with the quality of children, which implies that child ‘quality’ declines as family size increases. Child psychologists argue that increases in the number of children can increase the child quality because it provides children with opportunities to teach and learn from each other. Alternatively, there may simply be economies of scale in childcare costs for items such as clothes and textbooks such that an additional child lowers the marginal cost of quality for all children. Both China and India have experimented with different family planning policies to limit family size. This study addresses the effect of family size by examining the impact of increasing the number of children from one to two on school enrolment in rural China. To establish causality, the author exploits region and birth year variation in relaxations of the one child policy.

scholarly journals Vendo o sol nascer bordado: poderes, saberes e fazeres de reeducandas na Unidade Prisional de Goiás * Seeing the sun be born embroidery: powers and knowledges of Reeducandas in the Goiás’s Unit Prison

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
CLÓVIS CARVALHO BRITTO ◽  
PAULO BRITO DO PRADO ◽  
RAQUEL MIRANDA BARBOSA
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Women Prisoners ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Know How ◽  
Symbolic Economy ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Manual Activity

<p class="Default"><strong>Resumo: </strong>Este artigo analisa as interlocuções entre memória, patrimônio, artes do saber-fazer e as relações de gênero na Unidade Prisional de Goiás com enfoque no projeto <em>Cabocla: bordando cidadania</em>, o modo como ele tem contribuído para uma outra formatação da experiência feminina no cárcere, a economia simbólica e a patrimonialização de objetos através da eleição da cultura vilaboense, reproduzida em bordados feitos por mulheres encarceradas. Por meio de entrevistas com a idealizadora do projeto e com uma esposa de reeducando, uma ex-reeducanda e uma mulher que cumpre pena privativa de liberdade, alinhavamos um painel sobre os impactos da atividade manual no encarceramento e na trajetória de vida dessas mulheres.</p><p class="Default"><strong>Palavras-chave: </strong>bordado; memória; cárcere; patrimônio.</p><p class="Default"><strong><br /></strong></p><p class="Default"><strong>Abstract: </strong>This article examines the dialogues between memory, heritage, arts know-how and gender relations in Prison Unit Goiás focusing on Cabocla project: embroidering citizenship, the way he has contributed to a other formatting of the female experience in prison the symbolic economy and patrimony of objects through the election of vilaboense culture, reproduced in embroidery made by women prisoners. Through interviews with the creator of the project and re-educating with a wife, an ex-convict and a woman who still meets custodial sentence, sew a panel on the impact of incarceration on manual activity and the life course of these women.</p><p class="Default"><strong>Keyword: </strong>embroidery; memory; jail; patrimony.</p>

The empowerment of singleton daughters: exploring the gender digital divide among Chinese college students

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Puxin Zhang ◽  
Lian Wang ◽  
Chun Liu
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Parental Support ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Content Type ◽  
One Child Policy ◽  
Child Policy ◽  
The Impact

PurposeExisting researches find that a gender difference exists in terms of Internet usage. In China, the singleton daughters resulting from China's one-child policy enjoy unprecedented parental support. The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether singleton daughters can, to some extent, break through the predicament of the digital divide.Design/methodology/approachThe study collected data from a sample of 865 college students and obtained 811 valid questionnaires. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is used to identify clusters of Internet usage from the perspective of statistical associations in various daily online activities. Two-way ANOVA and mean-comparison tests are used to analyze how singleton and non-singleton students use the Internet differently.FindingsThis study finds that singleton female students showed no significant differences from male students in aspirational activities of informational, educational use and social media use, which means that singleton female students have caught up with male students in these activities. However, female college students from multi-child families were still found to be disadvantaged in those activities.Originality/valueThere is a lack of consensus on the classification of Internet activities. We used EFA to cluster the varieties of Internet activities into three types: utilitarian use, exploratory use and aspirational use. The three identified types of Internet usage require different degrees of user initiative. We argue that initiative provides a useful lens through which to classify Internet usage. In addition, this study is among the few studies to investigate the impact of the one-child policy on the gender digital divide.

The Impact of China's ‘One-Child’ Policy on the Educational Attainment of Adolescents

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-221
Author(s):  
Mary Beal-Hodges ◽  
Chung-Ping Loh ◽  
Harriet Stranahan
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
One Child Policy ◽  
Child Policy ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Morality Policy and Unintended Consequences: China's "One-Child" Policy

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome S. Legge Jr. ◽  
Zhirong Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Sex Ratio ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Population Policy ◽  
Harmful Effect ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Morality Policy ◽  
One Child Policy ◽  
Child Policy ◽  
The Impact

The ability of government to change human behavior by altering policy has severe limitations. Nowhere are these limitations more evident than in the area of fertility policy and sexual behavior. This paper considers the impacts of China’s restrictive population policy with regard to two dependent variables. First, we attempt to explain the impact of the “one child” policy on population growth. Secondly, we examine the effect of the policy on an unintended consequence: the sex ratio, or the imbalance between males and women in Chinese society. We utilize a time series, cross-sectional (TSCS) research design for 31 Chinese provinces and municipalities for the years 1996-1999. We consider the Chinese experience within the theoretical framework of morality policy and argue that, while China has been remarkably successful in lowering the growth rate of its still escalating population, the policy has had the unanticipated and harmful effect of an increasingly unbalanced sex ratio. While many Chinese have become convinced of the advantages of smaller families, their preference for sons has created a gender imbalance in the marriage market which potentially may have severe consequences for the future of Chinese society. We discuss these implications and argue that given the strong Chinese preference for sons, especially in rural areas of China, the government is now facing a new challenge in its effort to achieve a gender-balanced society.

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