活動
Gender and Employment in Rural China (Book Launch)
2017年11月8日
12:30 – 14:00
香港中文大學信和樓422室
Prof. Song Jing, Assistant Professor of the Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jing Song is an Assistant Professor in Gender Studies Programme at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include gender and family, work and employment, migration and urbanization, and market transition in China. She has published in China Quarterly, Urban Studies, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Housing Studies, Population, Space and Place, Journal of Sociology, Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Chinese Journal of Sociology etc.
Online registration: https://goo.gl/GJVa6c
email: genderstudies@cuhk.edu.hk
Wednesday Gender Seminar Co-presented by Gender Studies Programme, Gender Research Centre & Sexualities Research Programme, CUHK
Abstract: With China’s rapid advancements in urbanization and industrialization, there has been significant labor movement away from agriculture in the rural regions. Using four village case studies, the book examines how this restructuring process affects the rural population and how their various perceptions and reactions towards the market reforms have changed along with the employment transition. Given the changes of family life and the diversification of development models, this study illustrates different gendered employment patterns in light of China’s move towards decentralization of its rural economy. The findings suggest mixed trends of multiple job-holding situations and individualized work negotiated within rural families and communities, within which gender gaps and relations are reshaped by the shifting urban-rural divide, the changing local-migrant economic activities, and the varying structures of market risks and private sectors.
