Women's market work and household status in rural China: Evidence from Jiangsu and Shandong in the late 1990sFiona MacPhail and Xiao-yuan Dong () Feminist Economics, 2007, vol. 13, issue 3-4, pages 93-124 Abstract: This paper addresses the question, "does market work improve women's household status in rural China?" using survey data of men and women working in Township and Village Enterprises in rural Jiangsu and Shandong. This paper measures household status by domestic labor time, responsibility for domestic tasks, and household decision-making control. It finds that women have lower household status than men, using these three indicators. Based upon regression results, this paper concludes that for women market wages reduce domestic work time and responsibility for domestic tasks but market hours do not. The nature of bargaining warrants further research since the evidence that financial resources contribute to increased household decision-making control is mixed. Should employment opportunities for women increase with China's membership in the WTO, improvements in women's household status will depend upon their wages and the gender wage gap. Keywords: Market work; China; domestic labor; gender inequality; household bargaining; women; JEL Codes: J16; J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:femeco:v:13:y:2007:i:3-4:p:93-124 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Feminist Economics is edited by Diana Strassmann More articles in Feminist Economics from Taylor and Francis Journals |
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