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Life cycle, labour remuneration, and gender inequality in a Chinese agrarian collective
Journal of peasant studies • 32 (2) • Published In 2005 • Pages: 277-303
By: Li, Huaiyin.
Abstract
This is a study of the persistence of patriarchy under communism. Based on household registers and records of work assignments and remuneration, the author calculates the difference in earnings between men and women in a production brigade in central China. The analysis shows that women earn less than men over the course of a lifetime of work because they are assigned lighter, less-remunerated work; have higher levels of absences due to child rearing and domestic work; and retire ten years earlier than men. Work points based on piecework showed that women worked as hard as and earned more than men. Unfortunately, piecework was disallowed during the Cultural Revolution.
- Subjects
- Labor and leisure
- Division of labor by gender
- Wages and salaries
- Labor and leisure
- Age stratification
- Gender status
- Household
- Adolescent activities
- culture
- Han Chinese
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- East Asia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Historian
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2021
- Field Date
- Not applicable
- Coverage Date
- 1966-1979
- Coverage Place
- Qin village, Dongtai county, Jiangsu province, People's Republic of China
- Notes
- Huaiyin Li
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-303)
- LCCN
- 75642680
- LCSH
- China--Social life and customs