Abstract：Based on the third National Survey on the Status of Chinese Women in 2010 this paper examines the impacts of migration on the gender-role attitude of rural migrants. The findings show that rural-to-urban migration significantly affected rural migrants' traditional attitudes towards continuity of family name and gender-based labor division, but there was little impact on the core beliefs of the patriarchal family system, namely the attitudes towards inheritance of family property. In addition, the impact of migration on the attitudes owards continuity of family name and the attitudes towards gender-based labor division is more significant for women than for men. To summarize, the weakening effect of rural-to-urban migration on migrants' traditional gender-role attitude is gradual and is becoming
more widespread. As men benefit more from the traditional gender roles, they have more difficulties in changing their attitudes than women.
