With China’s rapid advancements in urbanization and industrialization, there has been significant labor movement away from agriculture in the rural regions. U

Out to Work is a fresh, engaging account of the lives of a group of rural Chinese women who, while still in their teens, moved from villages to Beijing to take

This book explores the link between the everyday relations of gender and the reform of the rural political economy in the 1980's, and argues that the reconstitu

This open access book investigates female employment and the gender gap in the labor market and households during China’s economic transition period. It provi

This paper examines gender inequality in the context of structural transformation and rebalancing in China. We document declining women's relative wages and lab