What Dominates the Female Class Identification? Evidence From China.

Peng Cheng,Zhijun Zhang,Ping Jiang,Jing Zhou

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.627610

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https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.627610

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Abstract

In advocating gender equality today, we should not only pay attention to women's social status but also call for the women's psychological identification of class equality. What dominates female class identification? To answer this question, based on the data of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) in 2015, this study constructs a female class identity framework from five aspects: the mother's intergenerational influence, female personal characteristics, lifestyle, gender consciousness, and spouse status. In this study, the ordered logit model is used to empirically analyze the impact of various factors on female class identification, and the results show the following: (1) gender consciousness has a significant impact on female class identification. (2) Lifestyle has a significant impact on the situation of having a spouse. (3) Spouse status has a significant positive effect on female class identification. But (4) the mother's intergenerational influence has no effect on female class identification. Therefore, this paper suggests that we should improve laws and regulations to protect women's normal rights, encourage women to establish an independent and self-improvement character, and enhance the class consciousness of women, especially rural women, in order to achieve the overall improvement of female class and psychological identification.

Highlights

Gender differences in social status have existed for a long time (Ciabattari, 2001; Mensah and Adjei, 2020; Takahashi et al, 2020)
Gender Consciousness and Female Class Identification Model 2 is based on the control variables of model 1, to which various factors of gender consciousness are added in order to carry out the research
The gender division of labor consciousness is found to have a significant positive effect at the level of 1%, which indicates that the more women agree with the view that “men focus on career, women focus on family,” the higher the women’s class consciousness

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Introduction

Gender differences in social status have existed for a long time (Ciabattari, 2001; Mensah and Adjei, 2020; Takahashi et al, 2020). Due to the difference in body shape and strength between men and women, men were better able to undertake the powertype labor. The distribution of housework between the husband and wife was uneven, and the status of women became increasingly lower over time (Nyman et al, 2018). Under the concept of gender inequality, women’s rights and interests are difficult to be protected, which affects women’s values and class identity (Weeks, 1989).

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