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Work well or marry well: gender regime under Chinese market reform
Xu Jie (Cindy)
A seminar presented by the Research Centre for Gender Studies and the Centre for Work + Life
Friday 23 May, 4–5 pm
Centre for Work and Life, A Building, Level 2, Magill Campus
By analysing what is behind a Chinese popular saying 'marry well rather than work well', this presentation will explore changes to the gender regime in China. Women are not benefiting from market reform as much as men and many achievements of the socialist women's movement have been lost. Women's attitudes to paid and unpaid work and their choices for marriage are not determined by their own will. Prevailing norms and values and institutions interact to affect their decisions. When more and more Chinese woman agree to marry well rather than work well, this signals an urgent issue regarding gender equality.
Xu Jie (Cindy) is Associate Professor in Economics at the Northeast Forestry University (NEFU) in China and is currently a visiting scholar with the Research Centre for Gender Studies. While at UniSA, Jie is researching women and equity following market reform in China. The Chinese economy moved from mainly rural production under a feudal state to an industrialising planned economy under a socialist state. Since China's Reform and Open Policy, which commenced in 1978, there has been an ongoing economic and cultural transition to a market economy. As a market economy focuses more attention on money and material wealth than the previous centrally planned economy, Jie is looking at the changes that have taken place to women's status since the market reforms. Jie will present a paper at the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) Conference in Torino, Italy in June 2008.
Drinks and nibbles will be provided.
Please RSVP to valerie.adams@unisa.edu.au or ph 8302 4628.
Inquiry into Paid Maternity, Paternity and Parental Leave
Australian Government Productivity Commission
Public hearings
Adelaide hearing: Wednesday 28 May
See Public
hearings document (Word 219 kb) for more information.
Also see the
inquiry's website.
Sign a petition in support of paid maternity leave for all Australian women.
Hope: the utopian imagination of young people on the margins
Adelaide Festival of Arts exhibition
Migration Museum, 82 Kintore Ave, Adelaide
29 February – 30 June 2008
Weekdays 10am–5pm, weekends and public holidays 1–5pm
Free
Curators: Simon Robb and Catherine Manning
This exhibition documents responses by 'young people at risk' to ideas
about hopefulness and the future. It is part of the Adelaide Festival of Arts 2008
and an
outcome of the HRISS Linkage project
'Doing social sustainability: the
utopian imagination of youth on the margins'.