Harsh Choices: Chinese Women's Paid Work and Unpaid Care Responsibilities under Economic Reform

Development and Change

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 947-965

  Cook, Sarah ^a   Dong, Xiao Yuan ^b  

^a United Nations Research Institute for Social Development UNRISD   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC REFORM; LABOR MARKET; REFORM PROCESS; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT; WOMENS STATUS;

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHINA; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HISTORY; INCOME; LEGAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

CAREGIVERS; CHINA; FAMILY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; INCOME; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS; WOMEN, WORKING;

CHINA;

EID: 80052804895     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2011.01721.x     Document Type: Article

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