Economic Transition in China and Vietnam

Crossing the Poverty Line is Just the First Step for Women and Their Families

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9255573
AutoresGale Summerfield (Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, autor correspondente)
Ano1997
Volume55
Fascículo2
Páginas201-214
Data de publicação1997-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoReview of Social Economy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0034-6764 • E-ISSN: 1470-1162
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00346769700000034
OpenAlexW2077854440
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas11

This paper compares the changing strategies of women and their families during the economic transition in China and Vietnam. Employment strategies to improve the family' s well-being have resulted in increased rural-urban migration by men and young women, while middle-aged, married women remain in the countryside taking care of the farms and children. Although women have been able to take advantage of new opportunities for employment in nonstate firms and their own entrepreneurial endeavors, their employment strategies are limited by increasing discrimination in hiring and layoffs. Moreover, the policy problems play out within the family in changing bargaining power, including decisions about education and health care

Bargaining power · Business · China · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Labour economics · Political science · Poverty · Power (physics) · Rural area · Transition (genetics) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Work-Family Balance Challenges