Dr. Hu\, Professor of Global Sociology at Lancaster Univer sity\, will present a lecture titled “Gendered Childhoods: Remaking Family and Work Inequalities in Post-Socialist China.”
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Post-s ocialist China has seen a sharp resurgence of gender inequality in people’s family and work lives. Chiming with a global trend\, Chinese women surpass ed men in education. Yet\, women’s labor force participation rate dropped. Occupational gender segregation persists. Women still shoulder the lion’s s hare of domestic and care responsibilities. Gender discrimination is increa singly rampant. Once a glorified epitome of state-enforced gender equality\ , the status quo looks dystopian.
What does the future hold for the p rospect of gender equality in China? To answer this question\, we must look to the next generation and examine how Chinese children are brought up. Ho w do they learn to perform family and work roles? How do they envision thei r future work and family lives? What does it take to fulfill their work and family aspirations? Why are some dreams broken and gender equality unreali zed?
In this talk\, Professor Yang Hu presents large-scale evidence a nd theoretical developments from his decade-long research on gendered inter generational relations and the reproduction of family and work inequalities in China. The talk examines gendered childhoods across the domains of home \, school\, and (future) work\, as well as the (dis)connections between the se domains. Professor Hu proposes family-work-school “institutional triple bind” and “life-course inconsistency” as crucial lenses for understanding g endered childhoods and the future of family and work gender inequalities in China.
Yang Hu is Professor of Global Soci ology at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. He is co-director of t he Early Career Fellowship Program at the Work and Family Researchers Netwo rk (WFRN) and a member of the UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab. His research exa mines family and work changes and inequalities in a global context\, includ ing the implications of digitalization and AI (artificial intelligence) for work and family lives.
Professor Hu’s recent research has been publi shed in journals including Nature Human Behaviour\, Gender & Society\, Journal of Marriage and Family\, European Sociological Review \, and the British Journal of Sociology. He is also author of the book Chinese-British Intermarriage – Disentangling Gender and Ethnicity .
Find out more about Dr. Hu here.
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