Women: Work, Welfare and Status. Forces of Tradition and Change in India

Abstract

Party.24 In the post-Revolution era, similar campaigns in the early 1950s and the Cultural Revolution period were subsequently discouraged, the Party's organisational and operational support withdrawn, for similar reason. The different components of women's status in socialist China have thus moved unevenly, asymmetrically [Whyte and Whyte: 1982], the rise in their work participation and economic contribution hardly paralleled by rise in socio-political participation and commune leadership, closing of the gender-gap in work quality (measured by the technological and managerial levels of work positions/sectors allotted, the unit valuation of work points), and reduction of the double burden. In non-socialist growth experience, the asymmetry has generally been sharper and more prolonged. Tilly and Scott [1978] noted, for the European peasant families in the course of economic growth over the nineteenth century, the persistence of patriarchal values in spite of women's increasing