Women’s Status and Fertility Differential in the World-System: A Cross-National Analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 246-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rifat Akhter
Keyword(s):  
World System ◽  
Women's Status ◽  
Power Relationship ◽  
High Fertility ◽  
Dependent Development ◽  
Women’S Status ◽  
System A ◽  
And Gender ◽  
National Analysis ◽  
Cross National

Abstract Using World-System and Gender and Development theories to examine women’s status and fertility in the high fertility countries, I argue that fertility behavior is strongly related to an unequal power relationship between husbands and wives, which occurs because of a dependent economy. Dependent economy creates economic inequality and limits prospects for women’s upward mobility, which may be an important factor for maintaining high fertility. This research examines empirical data from 82 countries—where total fertility rate is higher than 2.1 per woman in a given nation. The study includes both semi-periphery and periphery regions with planned and market-oriented economies in order to investigate the influence of investment and dependent development on women’s status and fertility.

scholarly journals Transitions and Conflicts: Reexamining Impacts of Migration on Young Women’s Status and Gender Practice in Rural Shanxi

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lichao Yang ◽  
Xiaodong Ren
Keyword(s):  
Northern China ◽  
Women's Status ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Shanxi Province ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Women’S Status ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
And Gender

<p>This article explores impacts of migration on young women’s status and gender practice in rural northern China. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a village in Shanxi Province, it suggests that rural-urban migration has served partially to reconstruct the traditional gender-based roles and norms in migration families. This reconstructive force arises mainly from the changes of the patrilocal residence pattern and rural women’s acquisition of subjectivity during the course of migration. However, after migrant women return to their home villages, they usually reassume their roles as care providers and homemakers, which is vividly expressed by a phrase referring to one’s wife as ‘the person inside my home’ (<em>wo jiali de</em>). Meanwhile, although migrant women’s capacity and confidence have greatly increased consequent upon working out of the countryside, their participation in village governance and in the public sphere has been decreasing. Further examination suggests that the reinforcement of gender inequality and the transformation of gender relations result from the continuous interplay of local power relations, market dominance, and unchallenged patrilocal institutions. Through adopting a life course perspective, it challenges too strict a differentiation between migrant and left behind women in existing literature.</p>

Family and Economic Growth: A World-System Approach and a Cross-National Analysis

2000 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-244
Author(s):  
Edward Kick ◽  
Byron Davis ◽  
Marlene Lehtinen ◽  
Liya Wang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
System Approach ◽  
World System ◽  
National Analysis ◽  
Cross National
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