abstract: 'Background Understanding the regional differences in child care is

  critical as the gendered division of child care in the family remains

  unequal between husbands and wives in China. Objective The study aims to

  assess how child care time is divided differently between husband and

  wife within the families in urban and rural sectors, and how these

  divisions are associated with factors such as one''s own or spouse''s

  employment status, educational achievement, and earnings. Method We

  analyzed data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (2004, 2006,

  2009, and 2011), using the relative resources theory, ``doing gender{''''}

  perceptive, as well as the gender attitudes model to explain gender

  differentials in child care among urban and rural families. Results The

  gender difference in child care continues to persist but with a

  variation between urban and rural sectors. In addition to the wife''s own

  employment status, the husband''s employment status as well as income has

  played important roles in influencing the child care division inside the

  household. Conclusions The relative resources theory explains the

  pattern of the gendered division of child care in rural sectors but

  cannot account for the patterns in urban sectors. Instead, patterns in

  urban women''s child care time were more consistent with a ``doing

  gender{''''} perspective and urban men''s child care time were consistent

  with an egalitarian gender attitudes model.'
affiliation: 'Zhao, SB (Corresponding Author), Cent Univ Finance \& Econ, Sch Sociol
  \& Psychol, 39 South Coll Rd, Beijing, Peoples R China.

  Zhao, Sibo, Cent Univ Finance \& Econ, Sch Sociol \& Psychol, 39 South Coll Rd,
  Beijing, Peoples R China.'
author: Zhao, Sibo
author-email: sibozhao@cufe.edu.cn
author_list:
- family: Zhao
  given: Sibo
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1007/s10566-019-09541-5
eissn: 1573-3319
files: []
issn: 1053-1890
journal: CHILD \& YOUTH CARE FORUM
keywords: 'Inequality; Child care; Gendered division; Urban and rural families;

  China'
keywords-plus: 'OF-LABOR; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT; HUSBANDS PARTICIPATION; TIME ALLOCATION;

  PAID WORK; INEQUALITY; INVOLVEMENT; HOUSEWORK; MARRIAGE; CHOICES'
language: English
month: AUG
number: '4'
number-of-cited-references: '51'
pages: 511-531
papis_id: 13b54003f9e9fc0f11e2f9aac10bf94c
ref: Zhao2020genderfamilies
times-cited: '2'
title: 'Gender in Families: A Comparison of the Gendered Division of Child Care in
  Rural and Urban China'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000545089400002
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '12'
volume: '49'
web-of-science-categories: Psychology, Developmental
year: '2020'