Shanghai: Women’s Life Expectancy 81.81

The life expectancy at birth for female reached 81.81in Shanghai in 2003, up from 81.63 in the previousyear, according to a new report on the status ofwomen and children in the city in 2003. The reportwas released jointly by Shanghai Women andChildren’s Committee and the Shanghai StatisticsBureau.The higher life expectancy was evidence that womenin Shanghai have benefited from greater nationaleconomic growth, healthier lifestyles and bettermedical services.In other areas, two key indicato…     

Survey to Assess Implementation of Women＇s Law

The Law on the Protection of the Rights andInterests of Women of the People‘s Republicof China is the first of its kind in China to focus on women and protection of their legal right sand interests. As of the year 2002, the Law had been put into effect for ten years. In order to understand     

New Urban Residents：Vulnerable．Migrant Women Bolster China＇s Economic Development

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Shanghai＇s New Dwellers：Selected Survey Data on Floating Population in New Pudong Area

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韩国妇女社会地位问题探析

20世纪60年代以来,韩国妇女社会地位和生活状况不断改善,但实现韩国社会性别平等仍是一个长期的社会化过程。在韩国提高女性的社会地位不仅需要全社会的关注,而且需要一个强化的社会决策机制,才能逐步实现从思想意识领域到社会实践领域彻底地根除性别歧视的观点。     

Ford Foundation Focuses Attention on Women＇s Well－Being andCommunityParticipation

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China＇s Social Security Policy

The Chinese government actively promotes the development of social welfare, raising funds through various channels to provide social welfare benefits for the elderly, orphans and the disabled.     

A Beijing NGO The Perplexed State of Contemporary Women The Women＇s Research Institute Keeps its finger on the pulse of Beijing＇s rapidly changing society

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Taiwan＇s Economy Adversely impacted by Dichotomous Migration Pattern

A survey of 2,002 unmarried women under 24 years of age who requested abortions in four Chinese cities indicates that reproductive tract infection (RTI) has become a major factor affecting the reproductive health of unmarried women having abortions.     

The Impacts of Lower Population Growth on the Quality of Life and Economic Development：China＇s Experience

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Unite the Quest for Women＇s Equality with Family Planning Urges State Councillor Peng

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China＇s Ranking Rises in the Mothers＇ Index

正On May 6,2014,Save the Children,an international charity,issued its report of State of the World's Mothers 2014.Among the Mothers’Index covering178 countries in the world,China ranks the 61st,an increase of 7 positions over the previous year.This is the 15th year     

试论畲族妇女的地位及其产生的积极作用

畲族是中华民族大家庭中的一员，历史上深受统治阶级的歧视、压迫，他们远避尘世，大多结庐在山区，以农耕、狩猎为生。清·浮云《畲客风俗》有“畲客夫妇并耕”的记载。畲族妇女非常地吃苦耐劳，与男子共同参加社会劳动，她们的这种自强自立的精神决定了她们在畲族社会家庭中享有与男子同等的地位。浙江省丽水地区是畲族聚居地之一，占全国畲族人口的八分之一。笔者曾对畲族妇女的地位及其产生的积极作用等方面进行过一些调查和探析，深切感到，当今畲族妇女在保留本民族优良传统美德的同时，不断向社会吸取新的东西，已与祖国大家庭融为一体，为中华民族的繁荣昌盛作出努力，发挥积极的作用。     

Women’s Job Quality Across Family Life Stages: An Analysis of Female Employees Across 27 European Countries

There is little empirical evidence on how working conditions affect women’s employment and fertility choices, despite a number of studies on the impact of individual-level and institutional factors. The article addresses this gap by examining how family life stages are related to particular aspects of job quality among employed women in 27 European countries. The central argument of the analysis is that high-quality jobs are conducive to both transitions to motherhood and employment after childbirth as women select into these roles. Accordingly, mothers of young children, if employed, are expected to have relatively better quality jobs. Four dimensions of job quality are considered: job security, career progression, working time and intrinsic job quality. The results indicate that mothers with young children are more likely to hold high-quality jobs than women at other life stages with respect to working time quality and job security, but with some variation across countries for job security. The findings highlight the importance of high-quality jobs for women’s fertility decisions and labour market attachment after childbirth, with implications for European employment policy.     

The Trend of China＇s Gini Coefficient： A Calculation by Subdividing People Groups of 2000~2009＇s National Statistic Data

To reduce the error factors on calculating China’s Gini Coefficient, this paper first subdivides people (data of 2000～2009) into multiple groups according to 3 gaps, ie. interregional, urban-rural and wealth , then sorts the groups of urban and rural according to each income level. The area method is used to calculate the Gini Coefficient. The finding shows that China’s Gini Coefficient is at a high level. It became bigger during the 10th Five-year Plan period but kept stable during the 11th Five-year Plan period. Under the rapid developmentofurbanization,theincome distribution in urban areas became one of the biggest contributive factors to Gini Coefficient.     

Migrant Workers： Urban Underclass

China has 130 million migrant workers in cities, according to official statistics. The term 揻armer?carries quite different connotations in China than in the West, where farming is a profession taken up by well-educated people and involves large-scale mechanical production. In the West, farmers enjoy the same social status as urban dwellers. In China, however, being a farmer is synonymous with low social status. Chinese farmers have a comparatively poor education and live on a small patch …