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China's One‐Child Policy and the Empowerment of Urban Daughters

2002· article· en· 408 citations· W2069156143 on OpenAlex· 10.1525/aa.2002.104.4.1098

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Abstract

Urban daughters have benefited from the demographic pattern produced by China's one–child policy. In the system of patrilineal kinship that has long characterized most of Chinese society, parents had little incentive to invest in their daughters. Singleton daughters, however, enjoy unprecedented parental support because they do not have to compete with brothers for parental investment. Low fertility enabled mothers to get paid work and, thus, gain the ability to demonstrate their filiality by providing their own parents with financial support. Because their mothers have already proven that daughters can provide their parents with old age support, and because singletons have no brothers for their parents to favor, daughters have more power than ever before to defy disadvantageous gender norms while using equivocal ones to their own advantage. [Keywords: gender, family, fertility, demography, China]

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Venue
American Anthropologist
Topic
Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
Field
Social Sciences
Canadian institutions
Funders
Association for Feminist AnthropologyMcGill UniversitySociety for Cultural AnthropologyCity University of Hong KongNational Science Foundation
Keywords
FertilityChinaKinshipEmpowermentIncentiveOne-child policyInvestment (military)Power (physics)Work (physics)Demographic economicsEconomic growthSociologyGender studiesDemographyPolitical scienceEconomicsFamily planningPopulationLaw
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