In American people are accustomed to a certain way of life. Most do not fear having to be told what to do with their life or with matters of personal and individual privacy. However, China has a different life-style. A lifestyle I had only heard at one point in my life in passing or seen briefly on the television on in movies. I would have never known how life was actually like if I did not have the privilege of working side-by-side at Citizens Bank and Trust with a woman named Liping Cai. Liping was no ordinary lady, and to fully understand her, one would have to get her to open up. Considering most of the employees at Citizens Bank and Trust were in their early twenties and Liping was a more mature lady, she stayed to herself most of the
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Liping had told me so many wonderful things about China, but I wanted to know about the harder times. I decided to do further research starting with the missing women in China due to the one-child policy, the education of Chinese women primarily after they have gotten married, and depression and suicide amongst women.
The gender gap seems very evident; however, there may be reasons for this phenomenon. Erwin Bulte, Nico Heerink, and Zhang Xiaobo teamed up and wrote an article for the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, named China 's One-Child Policy and 'the Mystery of Missing Women ': Ethnic and Male-Biased Sex Ratios. Bulte, Heerink, and Xiaobo go into detail of the large numbers of missing women over the course of time ranging in the millions. Nevertheless, they give two possible reasons for the gender gap and their theory of the missing women is either due to Hepatitis B or because most parents prefer sons over daughters. The first theory being women with the Hepatitis B virus gave birth to more males than females. Later this with disproved in their article when they referenced Lin and Luoh who did a study in 2008 that proved Hepatitis B could not be the cause of the …show more content…
A piece in the Chinese Sociological Review named Fertility Decline and Women 's Status Improvement in China by Gloria Guangye He, Hua Ye, and Xiaogang Wu discussed the correlation with the fertility of women and their opportunity for education and advancing their status as women. They believe women who move forward in their education will have a higher opportunity to adopt more modern ideologies and demand to has a rule and say of their own lives. He, Ye, and Wu state that education will enlighten them and have the ability to become independent individual who to decide where to go with their careers and how many child they wish to have, not how many they are told to have. One of the fears men in China have with women being about to control their own education and life, if women start closing the gender gap then the labor work force would decline as well. As of today, there is a clear divide in the roles of men and women. Also, women are usually made to feel subordinate because the men are the providers and they are the ones who bring the money home, therefore if women cannot further their education leading to their inability to further their career, there will always be that divide between the two genders. Traditionally in China, a woman 's role is to be the caretaker and look after
Liping had told me so many wonderful things about China, but I wanted to know about the harder times. I decided to do further research starting with the missing women in China due to the one-child policy, the education of Chinese women primarily after they have gotten married, and depression and suicide amongst women.
The gender gap seems very evident; however, there may be reasons for this phenomenon. Erwin Bulte, Nico Heerink, and Zhang Xiaobo teamed up and wrote an article for the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, named China 's One-Child Policy and 'the Mystery of Missing Women ': Ethnic and Male-Biased Sex Ratios. Bulte, Heerink, and Xiaobo go into detail of the large numbers of missing women over the course of time ranging in the millions. Nevertheless, they give two possible reasons for the gender gap and their theory of the missing women is either due to Hepatitis B or because most parents prefer sons over daughters. The first theory being women with the Hepatitis B virus gave birth to more males than females. Later this with disproved in their article when they referenced Lin and Luoh who did a study in 2008 that proved Hepatitis B could not be the cause of the …show more content…
A piece in the Chinese Sociological Review named Fertility Decline and Women 's Status Improvement in China by Gloria Guangye He, Hua Ye, and Xiaogang Wu discussed the correlation with the fertility of women and their opportunity for education and advancing their status as women. They believe women who move forward in their education will have a higher opportunity to adopt more modern ideologies and demand to has a rule and say of their own lives. He, Ye, and Wu state that education will enlighten them and have the ability to become independent individual who to decide where to go with their careers and how many child they wish to have, not how many they are told to have. One of the fears men in China have with women being about to control their own education and life, if women start closing the gender gap then the labor work force would decline as well. As of today, there is a clear divide in the roles of men and women. Also, women are usually made to feel subordinate because the men are the providers and they are the ones who bring the money home, therefore if women cannot further their education leading to their inability to further their career, there will always be that divide between the two genders. Traditionally in China, a woman 's role is to be the caretaker and look after