A Study of Present-day Women’s Family Status in China: Intimate Relationships among Chinese Post-90s Couples

Studies on Education, Science, and Technology 2021

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A Study of Present-day Women’s Family Status in China: Intimate Relationships among Chinese Post-90s Couples

Book Title

Studies on Education, Science, and Technology 2021

Chapter Author(s)

Anran Li

Editors

Dr. Mack Shelley, Dr. Ismail Sahin

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978-1-952092-28-2

Pages

127-146

Chapter Highlights

This chapter aims to explore Chinese post-90s women’s family status in contemporary society in China. That is, to examine whether women got a higher position in their family, what kind of role they play in some essential parts of their daily relationships with their partners, including the division of household labour and decision-making.
To collect the information I needed, I conducted semi-structured interviews with seven couples who were recruited by phone. Some of them are my friends while some are strangers recruited by snowballing in China.
This research is to explore whether the gender role ideologies of post-90s generation changes on the premise of a rich material and broad knowledge, instead of exploring the impact of economic status and educational level. In this light, all the participants should be married, living in urban areas, and at least have received college degrees which is the lowest level of higher education in China.
I initially expected them to share their stories that reflect the changes of women’s domestic position. However, after analyzing the interview data, I found that the way that post-90s people treated housework has changed, which means the housework women undertake is no longer as the same as it in traditional context.
In contemporary young couples’ daily life, women not only undertake the physical labour but also the cognitive and emotional labor, which is still a burden of women’s life. Besides, some patriarchal ideologies remain in post-90s couples’ relationships, which makes women fail to have a real discourse in their families.

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Li, A. (2022). A Study of Present-day Women’s Family Status in China: Intimate Relationships among Chinese Post-90s Couples. In M. Shelley & I. Sahin (Eds.), Studies on Education, Science, and Technology 2021 (pp. 127-146). ISTES Organization.

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