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Record W2595785387 · doi:10.3138/jcfs.31.2.191

Chinese Husbands’ Participation in Household Labor

2000· article· en· W2595785387 on OpenAlex
David J. Lu, Marcia L. Bellas

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
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No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Comparative Family Studies · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicWork-Family Balance Challenges
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsChinaDemographic economicsIdeologyDivision of labourOrder (exchange)Sample (material)Time-use surveySocioeconomicsSociologyPolitical scienceEconomicsPolitics

Abstract

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A traditional saying in China is that “Men dominate the outside; women dominate the inside.” The first part of this saying has clearly changed, as Chinese women of working age show near universal participation in paid labor. To what extent is the second part of this saying still reflected in modern China? We examine this question using data from the China Health and Nutrition Study. We selected a subsample of 2,580 wives aged 20-55 and their husbands in order to analyze husbands’ participation in three traditionally female household tasks and child care. We examine absolute and relative measures of husbands’ participation for urban and rural residents separately, and we identify determinants of husbands’ greater participation. We find that urban husbands contribute more than rural husbands, but regardless of residency, wives do the vast majority of household labor and child care. Findings for the urban sample are most consistent with those of U.S. studies and show at least partial support for three major explanations of the division of household labor: time availability, gender-role ideologies, and relative power. We suggest possible ways to alleviate the “double day” experienced by Chinese wives.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.191
Threshold uncertainty score0.466

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.126
GPT teacher head0.430
Teacher spread0.303 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it