Gender-Based Employment and Income Differences in Urban China: Considering the Contributions of Marriage and Parenthood.
Previous research on China's labor market gender gaps has emphasized the human and political capital disadvantages of women and new discrimination in the reform era. Analyzing the China Urban Labor Survey/China Adult Literacy Survey, this paper shows that while women are significantly disadvantaged...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces (University of North Carolina Press) Vol. 86; no. 4; pp. 1529 - 1561 |
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Oxford University Press / UK
June 2008
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