Family Gender Relations Research Articles

The Dilemma of Gender Education in Chinese Colleges and Universities and the Way to Integrate It into Ideological and Political Education

Despite the great progress made in Chinese women’s cause, college students still hold a traditional gender concept. A survey of college students in Nanjing shows that school education and peer groups, rather than family gender relations and guidance of elders, are the dominant factors affecting college students' gender concept. Thus, based on the predicament of gender education in Chinese universities and the necessity of establishing compulsory courses in ideological education, integrating gender mainstreaming into the construction of ideological and political courses is not only an important way to innovate ideological and political education in colleges and universities, but also an effective means to enhance the awareness of gender equality among teachers and students. To this end, the paper will discuss the possibility and feasibility of integrating gender mainstreaming education into ideological and political courses in colleges and universities from the aspects of legal system construction, content system design, teaching staff organization, and social environment building of gender education.

Modern Russian family under the conditions of changing gender relations

The article is dedicated to analysis of the impact made by a considerable shift in the gender consciousness of Russians over the past two decades, in terms of the actual distribution of gender roles in family and the role of persisting gender stereotypes in the existing gender order of things, as well as the prospects for further development of gender relations based on sociological research. Research findings reveal contradictions between the gender consciousness and the actual distribution of family responsibilities. It emphasizes the importance of satisfaction with marital relations being a contributory factor for maintaining and strengthening family, which is largely and in part based on satisfaction with the distribution of domestic work. In the article the gender stereotypes and attitudes of young people are analysed, and the fact of a more widespread occurrence of egalitarian ideas of distribution of gender roles in family among young people in comparison with other age groups is revealed. Different attitudes to gender stereotypes among young people depending on their gender are also presented by the authors, in particular, a greater commitment to gender stereotypes of young men as compared to young women. The article states that young men more often share traditional attitudes to the distribution of gender roles in family, that is most likely a consequence of the conditions of gender socialization in family, and, perhaps to a degree a result of the media campaign launched to promote traditional gender roles and stereotypes as the cultural code improperly assigned to our people. The authors emphasize the need to study the impact of the lockdown regime on gender relations in family and thus on modern Russian family, since lack of data does not allow us to draw any reasonable conclusions about the impact of these emergency circumstances on the lives of various family types yet.

Migration journeys: The experiences of ethnic minority men and women in Vietnam – China border areas

Each year thousands of ethnic minority people in Vietnam – China border areas illegally cross from Vietnam into China to involve themselves in non-contract manual labour jobs. The research was conducted in the Lung Khau Nhin commune, Muong Khuong district, Lao Cai province with 100 direct questionnaire and 10 in-depth interviews with migrants and local officials. All interviews were translated into local ethnic minority languages. The following explains unique experiences of both males and females at all stages of the migration process as well as its impacts on gender relations. The research highlighted gender differences in their migration journeys. Based on the survey participants’ assessment, migration had both positive and negative gender impacts, in which men reported more positive experiences while women suffered from more negative effects at community, family and personal levels. Additionally, research participants stated increased family incomes. Mobility and social network were also improved. On the contrary, migration also created adverse impacts on gender relations in family and in the community as a whole.

K. Kasimati and L. Mousourou (editors), Gender and Immigration, Theoretical references and empirical research, (vol. I), Athens: Gutenberg Publishers, p.p. 299, 2007 (in Greek) E. Kambouri, Gender and Immigration. The everyday life of immigrants from Alba

<p>No abstract (available). </p><p>K. Kasimati and L. Mousourou (editors), Gender and Immigration, Theoretical references and empirical research, (vol. I), Athens: Gutenberg Publishers, p.p. 299, 2007 (in Greek)</p><p>E. Kambouri, Gender and Immigration. The everyday life of immigrants from Albania and Ukrania (vol. II), Athens: Gutenberg Publishers, p.p. 261, 2007 (in Greek)</p><p>M. Thanopoulou, Gender and Immigration. Intergenerational relationships and gender relations in families of Albanian immigrants (vol. III), Athens: Gutenberg Publishers, p.p. 268, 2007 (in Greek)</p><p> </p>

Spouses in the Household and the Family Business – Who (does) the Care and Who (does) the Work

Abstract In this pilot study we explore the mutual conditionality of bargaining power between spouses in the processes of intra-household allocation of resources (care work) and the assignment of their roles in family businesses (paid work) in Vojvodina, Serbia. Our intention is to explain the changes in gender relations in family businesses run by spouses under different socio-economic and institutional conditions, and especially in the context of enforced postsocialist neoliberal transformation after 2009. We formulate a theoretical and methodological framework based on the case of ten firms and check its validity for deeper and wider research into the key causes, forms and characteristics of gender bias in this area.

The Impact of Some Modes of Women Liberation to African Christian Families: A Case of Kagio Town in Kirinyaga County

The contemporary African Christian family is ideally a harmonious monogamous relation or union between two people of the opposite gender- a male and a female- and is largely nuclear. This family setting has continued to increasingly face a lot of challenges, threatening its well-being and existence. Some of these challenges include: increased cases of divorce, suicide-murder of spouses and children, separations, suicide of children, increased rate of single parenthood, among other concerns. These problems are largely relational in nature and attributed to impossible or problematic relationships between the spouses.Owing to the centrality of the family to the well-being of the society, the cry of an ailing and hurting family cannot be ignored. The African Christian family has encountered many waves of changes and challenges, some which have aimed at making it a better institution and others which have left it maimed and in turmoil. The study is on gender relations in the family and how some modes of women liberation have impacted on the nature of gender relations in the African Christian family and therefore the family as a whole. This study is based in Kagio town in Kirinyaga County. An understanding of the ideal African Christian family, which is an inculturative product of the African and the Christian traditions, is provided. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n5p31

Disaffection rising? Generations and the personal consequences of paid work in contemporary Canada

This article highlights the ‘personal consequences’ of contemporary employment relations in Canada, characterized by increasing precarity, shifting gender relations in families and in the workforce, the expansion of post-secondary education and an intensifying polarization of wealth. It connects these consequences to perceptions of intergenerational differences and conflict at and around work. Drawing on qualitative, narrative data from 52 interviews conducted between 2009 and 2011, the author proposes that younger people (or ‘generations’) are more likely to construct and be associated with narratives of disaffection about work. In contrast, what the author terms ambivalent and faithful narratives are largely associated with and constructed by workers who entered and experienced a far different world of work.

Independencia del ingreso económico materno y su relación con la socialización de género con hijos e hijas

The present study shows that when mothers perceive an independent income, family gender relations are transformed. This is a qualitative study based on the analysis of in-depth interviews of a group of mothers living in Tijuana who have low income and children in public junior high-schools. The research findings showed three different scenarios: 1) families where the mother is exclusively a house maker provide a more stereotypical gender education; 2) whereas, families with mothers who have independent incomes shown a greater openness toward gender equity; and 3) families with mother working in the family business present more unequal gender relations, although they make efforts to offer a more equalitarian gender socialization.