Article
Women’s Entry into Self-employment in Urban China: The Role of Family in Creating Gendered Mobility Patterns
World Development
Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
6-2012
Abstract
How did family characteristics affect women and men differently in self-employment participation in urban China? Analyses of national data show dual marriage penalties for women. Marketization made married women more vulnerable to lay-offs from state-sector jobs; their likelihood of being pushed into unskilled self-employment surpassed that of any other groups. The revitalized patriarchal family tradition favored men in family businesses and resulted in their higher rates of entering entrepreneurial self-employment. Married women who had the education to pursue entrepreneurial self-employment were constrained by family responsibilities to state-sector jobs for access to family services, and had much lower rates in entering self-employment.
Keywords
- self-employment,
- family,
- job mobility,
- gender segregation,
- Asia,
- China
Discipline
Identifier
10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.11.004
Publisher
Elsevier
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.11.004
Citation Information
Qian Forrest ZHANG and Zi PAN. "Women’s Entry into Self-employment in Urban China: The Role of Family in Creating Gendered Mobility Patterns" World Development Vol. 40 Iss. 6 (2012) p. 1201 - 1212 ISSN: 0305-750X Available at: http://works.bepress.com/forrest_zhang/49/