abstract: 'China''s economic reforms over the past three decades have dramatically

  changed the mechanisms for allocating goods and labour in both market

  and non-market spheres. This article examines the social and economic

  trends that intensify the pressure on the care economy, and on women in

  particular in playing their dual roles as care givers and income earners

  in post-reform China. The analysis sheds light on three critical but

  neglected issues. How does the reform process reshape the institutional

  arrangements of care for children and elders? How does the changing care

  economy affect women''s choices between paid work and unpaid care

  responsibilities? And what are the implications of women''s work-family

  conflicts for the well-being of women and their families? The authors

  call for a gendered approach to both social and labour market policies,

  with investments in support of social reproduction services so as to

  ease the pressures on women.'
affiliation: 'Cook, S (Corresponding Author), UNRISD, Palais Nations 1211, Geneva
  10, Switzerland.

  Cook, Sarah, UNRISD, Geneva 10, Switzerland.

  Cook, Sarah, Univ Sussex, Inst Dev Studies, Brighton BN1 9RH, E Sussex, England.

  Dong, Xiao-yuan, Univ Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB R3B 2E9, Canada.

  Dong, Xiao-yuan, Peking Univ, Natl Sch Dev, Beijing, Peoples R China.

  Cook, Sarah, Ford Fdn, Beijing, Peoples R China.'
author: Cook, Sarah and Dong, Xiao-yuan
author-email: 'Cook@unrisd.org

  x.dong@uwinnipeg.ca'
author_list:
- family: Cook
  given: Sarah
- family: Dong
  given: Xiao-yuan
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2011.01721.x
eissn: 1467-7660
files: []
issn: 0012-155X
journal: DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE
keywords-plus: URBAN CHINA; ELDER CARE; GENDER; TRANSITION; INEQUALITY; CAREGIVERS
language: English
month: JUL
number: 4, SI
number-of-cited-references: '60'
orcid-numbers: Cook, Sarah/0000-0002-2308-3967
pages: 947-965
papis_id: d84de1f73c78d0f86f0b07a9446f6a5b
ref: Cook2011harshchoices
researcherid-numbers: 'Cook, Sarah/HLG-3423-2023

  '
times-cited: '142'
title: 'Harsh Choices: Chinese Women''s Paid Work and Unpaid Care Responsibilities
  under Economic Reform'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000294921400004
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '52'
volume: '42'
web-of-science-categories: Development Studies
year: '2011'