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2013 Vol.0 Issue.2
Published 2013-04-20
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Gender and the Will of Political Representatives: Can Women Delegates Represent Women?
LI Qin
One potential hypothesis of promoting women's participation in politics is that more women's participation in governance can promote gender equality and speed up the process of gender mainstreaming. This is an assumption popular among advocates of "quota" in electoral systems. This understanding is also a reason for promoting women's empowerment through projects, but this should not be a self-evident truth. This paper argues that this understanding ought to be questioned, namely: Do female representatives "represent" Women? We argue that female elites do not necessarily represent women because of the constraining influence of power structure and the mechanisms through which to express political will. These two factors seriously affect the behavior of the political elites and are in grave need of innovative reforms.
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Why do They Demand Equal Retirement Age Policy? An Empirical Analysis Based on the 3rd National Survey on the Status of Chinese Women
TAN Lin,YANG Hui
Since the reforms and opening up in the 1980's, Chinese scholars have increasingly questioned the fairness and rationality of retirement age policy. Public demand, especially among women who work in government agencies and institutions, for equal retirement age policy has been rising. Based on the 3rd National Survey on the Status of Chinese Women, this paper has found that women and men who work for governments have similar levels of education and health status. However, women's actual retirement age is significantly lower than that of men. Moreover, women's actual retirement age is also significantly lower than the policy retirement age. Compared with that of ten years ago, women's actual retirement age has declined, and the gap of actual retirement age between sexes has enlarged. The decline of women's actual retirement age is having negative impact on women's career development and post-retirement life. The paper argues for the adoption of equal retirement age policy to protect the legitimate rights and interests of women working in government agencies and institutions.
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How Unmarried Women Residing in Their Fathers' Villages Find Themselves from a Perspective of "History" and "Locality"
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YANG Hua
In the Chinese countryside where women popularly reside in their husbands' villages, they are regarded as "outsiders" and how they gain a sense of life-long destination is a worthy question for research. There are two levels to a sense of life-long destination among rural women in China. One is for rural women to build between them and male dominated families and villages relationships of rights and responsibilities, play a certain role and gain due status in the relational and social networks. The second is while gaining status in the networks, they are to pursue their interests and desire and achieve the meaning of life and values. This paper argues that rural girls inherit the sense of history and locality where they live with their fathers, establish themselves in a web of rights and responsibilities with their paternal relatives and other members of the villages, and gain a sense of belonging and meaning of life in midst of relationships. Once their fathers pass away, however, girls would loss all what they had gained, including the rights and responsibilities they had established in the villages. They sometimes find it difficult to maintain a decent living and may have to struggle against the sense of loss throughout their lives.
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Urban Women's Dressing-up Consciousness: Subject, Content and the Mother-daughter Relationship: A Case Study from Guangzhou
LIU Lu-hu
Women's dressing-up has been a topic subject to both serious academic criticism and popular magazines' continuous influence, indicating that it requires further research. From the viewpoint of Socialization theory, this paper analyzes women's dressing-up consciousness based on a sample of 67 families in Guangzhou and draws conclusions as follows. women's dressing-up consciousness is an irregular "∩" curve throughout their lives, reaching its peak before pregnancy and then starting to decline. The process is divided into 4 stages: preadolescence, adolescence, before pregnancy and after pregnancy. In the different stages, women focus on different subjects, such as pretty dress, sexy dress, outstanding and appropriate dress. Simultaneously, the mother-daughter relationship changes synchronously with different stages, from issuing guiding, through entering conflict, to pursuing cooperation and regurgitation.
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Gender Responsive Budgets: Function Value, Implementation Dilemma, Promotion Strategy
LIU Xiao-hong, TIAN Ye
Gender Responsive Budgets have an ability to react timely to the existing gender inequality in the supply of public resources and public services. GRB can allocate public resources and services adequately to meet different demands of men and women, boys and girls, promoting gender equality. Low-level cognition, a gender neutral tendency in the current budget system, a political power dichotomy between the center and the marginalized, and a lack of mature implementing tools and supporting security system are the main obstacles to the adoption of GRB in China. Different countries have different motives of implementing GRBs and chosen paths. The promotion strategy in China's GRBs can make a breakthrough on the basis of summarizing pilot experience in Zhang Jiakou, Jiaozuo and Wenling; realize its role as policy tools that can also be used for mainstreaming gender, and promoting harmonious development between the sexes.
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Questions on Implementing the Special Regulations on Women Workers' Labour Protection
DANG Ri-hong
The smooth implementation of the Special Regulations on Women Workers' Labour Protection is very significant and will depend on whether the employers recognize its role and function, understand correctly how it should be applied in the system, and voluntarily comply with it. Relevant government departments' active compliance will ensure the implementation of the "Special Regulations".
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How to Begin with Women's Liberation?——Weekly Review's Discussion about Women's Liberation
YANG Hong-yu, XIAO Ni
：The New Culture Movement lifted up the thought of modern Chinese women's liberation to a new height. At that time, many newspapers and periodicals had focused on the topic of Chinese women's liberation. Weekly Review was one of the most influential newspapers during the May Fourth Movement. Over a short span of one year, more than 30 articles about the women's liberation were published by the Weekly Review. Many aspects were discussed, such as: who should play the principle role in women's liberation? What's the relationship between women's liberation and men's liberation? Which expression was better, "women's liberation" or "women's holiness"? What's the relationship between women's liberation and educational equality, economic independence, familial reform? Some viewpoints are still deserved serious considerations today.
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The Social Mobility of Rural Women in the Base Areas of Anti-Japanese Invation Forces: Case Study from Central Hebei
YANG Hao, MA Liang-yu
In the traditional Chinese society, women rarely gained a chance to move up the social ladder. After the outbreak of the anti-Japanese War, the CPC regime established quickly anti-Japanese Bases in central Hebei, and adopted approaches in party and government work, including education through school, setting up role models, training trainers as backbone, technical enrichment of peasants and so on, to help improve social mobility. The revolution led by the CPC promoted women's social mobility in the central Hebei anti-Japanese Base areas. The mechanisms of rural women's social mobility had a great influence on the future process of the revolution led by the CPC and reshaped the relationship between political power and women. These mechanisms had three aspects: the effect of dominant political force, the equalization of operation, and the characteristics of local climate. The smooth and extensiveness of rural women's social mobility is an important condition for positive interaction and reciprocity between the state power and rural women, and this realization is undoubtedly has profound practical significance for China today.
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Translation, Gender and the Construction of Modern Identity: Search of Sexual Politics by Women Translators in the Early 20th-Century China
LUO Lie
With the introduction of western modern views on woman and the development of discourse on strengthening nationally among pioneering intellectuals, women translators in the early 20th century participated in the construction of gender discourse by means of their literary translation. In their translation practice, their gender awareness and concern for woman can be witnessed in their discussion of the major gender issues at that time, including the legitimacy of love, the goals of women's learning, marriage, woman's chastity, views on childbearing and the ways for women to pursue independence. In the midst of various gender discourses, they did not follow mainstream thinking blindly but hold an objective attitude towards the modern identity construction of Chinese women.
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Construction of New Contemporary Myth of Mothers: From Liberation of the Body to Individual Independence, A Survey Centred on Women's Media during the Xin Hai Period
JIAN Zi-ya
The myth of mothers is a product of male dominated society and a construct of women's image by men based on their interpretation of the demand of the times. The new contemporary myth of mothers combines the mission of the times, men's desire, and mass media. Women's increasing participation in media during the Xin Hai Period opened up important public discourse space for the construct of women's culture. This process was also one in which the traditional myth of mothers was overthrown and the new contemporary myth of mothers was constructed. On the construct of the new myth, it is women's media that utilized its own symbols and cultural capital to reproduce a male centred discourse and then, created women's image of the times together with men and other media. This process manifests the nature of a male dominated society.
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On American Anti-Feminist Movementof the Late Twentieth Century
YAO Gui-gui
Upon the rise of neo-conservatism, which controlled American politics and the mainstream media in the late 1970s, anti-feminism in America gained momentum and launched an extensive offence against the on-going feminist movement. Anti-feminists succeeded in their campaigns against ERA (Equal Rights Amendment), abortion, same-sex marriage, affirmative action and government day-care center. Under the attack of this anti-feminist movement, the image of American feminists was damaged, and Women's Liberation Movement was greatly hindered. Meanwhile, the federal government cut down the funds, to a great degree, for the healthcare and living assistance to women with low-income, and attached less importance to family violence, rape and sexual harassment. The "feminization of poverty" persisted and became more serious, and the number of women who suffered from family violence and sexual violence increased.
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The Analytical Method of Feminist World Order
SU Yun-ting
Because of its use of gender, studies of feminist world order stand distinctly from mainstream paradigms at the level of ontology and epistemology. At the level of analytical methods, they challenge and pursue alternative to mainstream paradigms. They build a gender-sensitive methodological framework through a gender sensitive analysis of international relations. They have transcended positivist methods, and established a unique feminist analytical method. This feminist method unites critical theory, text analysis and constructivism and develops three important feminist international relations analytical methods, namely, feminist critical analysis method, feminist text analysis method, and feminist constructivist approach.
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The Formation of a "Situation-Action Analysis" Perspective: Women's Mass Protest of Jing Village in Shanxi
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WEI Xiao-jiang, JIANG Li-biao
As two research models, "structure-system analysis" and "process-event analysis" have potential to expand in theory. They, however, in practice, have each strengths and weaknesses. Life is a combination of either concrete or abstract world, while action takes place in instantaneous as well as social situation. Therefore, we attempt to link the two models, applying the "structure-system" to view social situation and the "process-event" to consider instantaneous situation, in developing the "situation-action analysis" perspective. With this perspective and gender analysis, we examine the Women's Mass Protest of Jing Village.
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Economic Analysis of Gender Inequalities in Education in China
ZHENG Lei, ZHANG Ding-quan
A growing body of literature indicates the potential economic and social benefits of human capital investment in female and in narrowing gender gaps in education. After six decades of educational development, gender inequalities in education have narrowed to a certain degree. However, women are still under-represented in higher education and underpaid in labor market compared to their male counterpart. Based on a framework of gender inequality in education proposed by ADB, this paper reviews the trends of gender inequality in education in China in three aspects: gender differences in educational opportunity, educational performance, and economic returns in labor markets. In each aspect, potential factors that can influence the rise or fall of gender gap are explained in details. Finally, this paper proposes several directions for future investigations.
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