Gender Strategy in the Management of State-owned Enterprises and Women Workers' Dependence on the Enterprises─A Study of Women Workers in Two State-ownedEnterprises in Guangzhou beforeand after the Reform

I. Statement of the ProblemThe impact of the Chinese economic reform on women hasoccasioned increasing concern in academic circles. It has been noted thatthe differences between male and female workers in state-ownedenterprises have widened since the introduction of the reform, and thatthe inferiority of women is now more obvious (Feng Tongqing and XuXiaojun, 1993; Meng Xianfan, 1995). All these studies focus on the late1980s and analyze the general impact of the reform on women workers,bu…