The progress of gender equality in China has attracted a lot of attention in the recent decade. As China has gotten richer, many people expected that the gender inequality situation would improve. However, if we compare China with other countries in the world using the Global Gender Gap Index, China ranked in just the 45th percentile in gender equality in 2006, and has continued to regress over the past decade. Eliminating gender inequality benefits China in multiple important ways. Most family and aging policies in China are gender-blind and are often framed as gender-neutral. In this talk, Emma Zang, Assistant Professor of Sociology, will discuss several important seemingly gender-neutral public policies in China, including the Marriage Law and the legal retirement age policy, and their implications on gender equality.
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