Discrepancy in Role Expectations - Marital Conflict and Gender Relationships - Academic Works of China Women's University

Author: Zhang Lixi
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: This book explores the phenomenon of marital conflicts in modern urban dual-earner families in China along the trajectory of the development of gender relationships in Chinese society. In the process of presenting and analyzing the data, it simultaneously outlines two threads: "Tradition" and "Change." On one hand, the author delves into the profound influence of China's millennia-old male-centered family culture on gender relationships within the family. On the other hand, it focuses on and discusses the impact and transformation of traditional female roles brought about by the Chinese government's promotion of gender equality over the past five decades, as well as the process of "reconstructing" gender relationships and family gender division of labor between spouses.