Essay On Gender Stratification In China

Gender stratification: Page 288; Males’ and females’ unequal access to property, power, and prestige.

China’s one child policy has implemented this belief that the male child is a greater asset than that of a female child. In China the children of the male sex is more revered than that of the female child. It is believed that the male child will not leave home as an adult and will care for the elderly parents. Whereas the female child will marry and leave home, leaving the elderly parents to grow old and to care for themselves. When in fact the female child is more apt to care for the elderly better than their male counterpart. Thus with this strong belief female children are either abandon, killed or aborted. In turn, the gender stratification in China has upset the balance of the male to female population. So much so, the male population has greatly outnumbered the female population. The adverse effect of China’s one child policy over the long …show more content…
This has happened by way of the belief that the male child is more important than that of the female child. When the one child policy was put into effect, it was not the intent to discriminate against the female population. This happened pretty much by mistake. For generations upon generation it has always been seen within China’s people that the male sex was always more important than that of the female sex. It was just an ill effect of the policy. Within this policy the parents were not informed of whatever the sex of the child that you have is the child that you keep. Had this part of the rule been implemented the population would have its checks and balances. This policy had a trickle-down effect of discrimination due to this policy lacking one clause. Had the policy had this clause, the population would not have become unbalanced today and the decimation of the female sex would not have