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Special Issue on Gender, China, and the WTO |
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17 August 2007 |
The accession of China to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the growth of the Chinese economy have elevated the overall well-being of many Chinese women but have adversely affected others, according to the latest issue of the journal Feminist Economics. In a special double issue on Gender, China and the WTO, the journal examines the consequences of China's opening up to international trade and its transition from socialism to a market economy.
The journal uses this special issue to explore women’s well-being relative to men's in rural and urban China by looking at land distribution, labor-market discrimination, earnings, household decision-making, health, the representation of women in advertising and beauty pageants, and the consumption of beauty products.
Xiao-yuan Dong, one of three guest editors for the special issue, said, "China has remarkable economic growth, but tremendous problems with growing economic and gender inequality. Not much is known about how women compared with men are being affected by China's accession to the WTO and other recent economic reforms. This collection aims to fill that gap.”
“The purpose of the special issue and the journal is not only to further the pursuit of economic knowledge but to influence policy and the quality of human lives," said Diana Strassmann, editor of the journal and professor of the practice in humanities at Rice University. "We hope the special issue reaches as many people as possible, including advocates and policymakers.”
In addition to Dong (University of Winnipeg), the special issue was guest-edited by Günseli Berik (University of Utah) and Gale Summerfield (University of Illinois), in collaboration with the journal’s staff and with the support of Rice University, the Ford Foundation-Beijing, and Anne and Albert Chao.
The issue will be available through the journal’s publisher, Routledge, for free online for a limited time. The print version is due for release Aug. 17.
Consistently ranked among top women’s studies and economics journals, Feminist Economics is the official journal of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE). Now in its second decade, the journal has attained international recognition for the quality and importance of its scholarship.
The journal plans to translate the special issue into Chinese.
Click here to see a Rice news article about the special issue. |
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