abstract: 'This paper documents trends in and examines determinants of stay-at-home

  motherhood in urban China from 1982 to 2015. China once had the world''s

  leading female labor force participation rate. Since the economic

  reforms starting from the early 1980s, however, some mothers have been

  withdrawing from the labor force due to diminished state support, a rise

  in intensive parenting, and heightened work-family conflicts. Based on

  data from the 1982, 1990, and 2000 Chinese censuses, the 2005

  mini-census, and the 2006-2015 Chinese General Social Survey, we find

  mothers'' non-employment increased for every educational group and grew

  at a much faster rate among mothers than it did among fathers,

  particularly those with small children. Moreover, the negative

  relationships between mothers'' education and non-employment, and between

  mothers'' family income and non-employment weakened overtime. This

  possibly due to women with more established resources can better

  ``afford{''''} the single-earner arrangement and also more emphasize the

  importance of intensive parenting, than their less resourced

  counterparts. These findings signal the resurgence of a gendered

  division of labor in urban China.'
affiliation: 'Tian, FF (Corresponding Author), Fudan Univ, Sch Social Dev \& Publ
  Policy, Dept Sociol, Shanghai, Peoples R China.

  Mu, Zheng, Natl Univ Singapore, Dept Sociol, 11 Arts Link, Singapore, Singapore.

  Tian, Felicia F., Fudan Univ, Sch Social Dev \& Publ Policy, Dept Sociol, Shanghai,
  Peoples R China.'
article-number: e20210065
author: Mu, Zheng and Tian, Felicia F.
author-email: 'socmuz@nus.edu.sg

  ftian@fudan.edu.cn'
author_list:
- family: Mu
  given: Zheng
- family: Tian
  given: Felicia F.
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.3138/jcfs-2021-0065
earlyaccessdate: DEC 2021
eissn: 1929-9850
files: []
issn: 0047-2328
journal: JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE FAMILY STUDIES
keywords: 'stay-at-home mothers; female labor force participation; childbearing;

  intensive mothering; work-family conflict; China'
keywords-plus: 'GENDER REVOLUTION; INCOME INEQUALITY; BASIC EDUCATION; WAGE PENALTY;

  CHILD; EMPLOYMENT; REFORM; FAMILY; MARRIAGE; TRANSITION'
language: English
month: MAR 1
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '73'
orcid-numbers: Mu, Zheng/0000-0003-2664-4106
pages: 48-75
papis_id: 787b0c0a6ebf452922bf184b29827b06
ref: Mu2022changingpatterns
times-cited: '1'
title: The Changing Patterns and Determinants of Stay-at-Home Motherhood in Urban
  China, 1982 to 2015
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000730915400001
usage-count-last-180-days: '6'
usage-count-since-2013: '24'
volume: '53'
web-of-science-categories: Family Studies
year: '2022'