Women and Health in China

Anatomy, Destiny and Politics

Bibliographic Data

ID2114046
AuthorsVeronica Pearson (corresponding author)
Year1996
Volume25
Issue4
Pages529-543
Publication date1996-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Social Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s004727940002393x
OpenAlexW2017003659
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited18

A number of circumstances have combined in the reform era in China to put women at a more disadvantageous position now than at any other time since 1949. Some of them reflect age-old prejudices, others are the result of the economic reforms, but the two join in a synthesis to threaten women's improved status. Health factors that have particularly impinged on women include: the one-child policy and the skewed birth ratio in favour of boys that this has led to; very clear problems in the area of mental health, including a suicide rate which is much higher for women than for men; kidnapping; and life-threatening exploitation in the new special economic zones. The government's desire to control women's fertility, however, has led to a marked improvement and increase in maternity and childcare health services in the last ten years. The central government has lost power to the provinces and is no longer able to take decisive action to protect women from the effects of discrimination

Action (physics) · Birth control · China · Destiny (ISS module) · Economic growth · Economics · Family planning · Fertility · Government (linguistics) · Mental health · Political science · Politics · Position (finance) · Power (physics) · Psychiatry · Sociology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Global Maternal and Child Health · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law · Medicine

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