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Summary
Summary
This book studies the relationship between Islam, family processes, and gender inequality among Uyghur Muslims in Ürümchi, China. Empirically, it shows in quantitative terms the extent of gender inequalities among Uyghur Muslims in Ürümchi and tests whether the gender inequalities are a difference in kind or in degree. It examines five aspects of gender inequality: employment, income, household task accomplishment, home management, and spousal power. Theoretically, it investigates how Islamic affiliation and family life affect Uyghur women's status.
Zang's research involved rare and privileged access to a setting which is difficult for foreign scholars to study due to political restrictions. The data are drawn from fieldwork in Ürümchi between 2005 and 2008, which include a survey of 577 families, field observations, and 200 in-depth interviews with local Uyghurs. The book combines qualitative and quantitative data and methods to study gendered behavior and outcomes. The author's study reinterprets family power and offers a more nuanced analysis of gender and domestic power in China and makes a pioneering effort to study spousal power, gender inequality in labor market outcomes, and gender inequality in household chores among members of ethnic minorities in China.
The book will be of interest to students and scholars of ethnic studies, Chinese studies, Asian anthropology and cultural sociology.
Author Notes
Xiaowei Zang is Professor and Head of the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is the author of Children of the Cultural Revolution (2000), Elite Dualism and Leadership Selection in China (2004), and Ethnicity and Urban Life in China (2007). He studies ethnicity, inequality, and elite politics in China.
Table of Contents
List of figures and tables | p. viii |
Preface | p. x |
Acknowledgements | p. xiv |
1 Between Islamic affiliation and gender inequality | p. 1 |
Five aspects of gender inequality | p. 2 |
Possible mechanisms of sexual stratification | p. 2 |
Religiosity as a mechanism of gender inequality | p. 6 |
Family processes as a mechanism of gender inequality | p. 10 |
Changes and persistence in family life among Uyghurs | p. 11 |
How do family processes affect gender inequality? | p. 15 |
Do family processes matter? | p. 21 |
2 Historical contexts and research design | p. 24 |
Xinjiang and Ürümchi | p. 24 |
The demographic history of Uyghurs and Han Chinese in Xinjiang | p. 27 |
Islam in Xinjiang | p. 33 |
Fieldwork in Ürümchi | p. 36 |
Analytic methods | p. 39 |
Dependent variables | p. 39 |
Independent variables | p. 40 |
3 A hard choice: to work or not to work? | p. 48 |
Gender gaps in employment in China | p. 50 |
Muslim women's labour supply | p. 51 |
Field observations in Ürümchi | p. 53 |
Why are women less likely than men to be employed? | p. 57 |
Is religion related to female labour-force participation? | p. 62 |
Religiosity and Muslim women's labour supply | p. 64 |
Does religiosity affect gender inequality in work in Ürümchi? | p. 64 |
Do family processes affect women's market behaviour? | p. 68 |
Family processes and gender inequality in employment in Ürümchi | p. 71 |
Supplementary analyses | p. 75 |
4 Why do Uyghur men earn more than Uyghur women? | p. 77 |
The gender earnings gap in China | p. 78 |
Gender earnings gaps among Uyghurs | p. 79 |
Why do women earn less than men? | p. 81 |
Is religious affiliation related to earnings? | p. 85 |
Religiosity and gender inequality in income | p. 85 |
Religiosity and Uyghur women's earnings | p. 87 |
Family processes as a determinant of earnings | p. 89 |
Family processes and gender inequality in income | p. 91 |
Supplementary analyses | p. 93 |
5 Who does household chores? | p. 95 |
Why are gendered divisions of household chores important? | p. 95 |
How are household tasks measured? | p. 97 |
Gender inequality in housework among Uyghurs | p. 99 |
How can gendered divisions of household chores be explained? | p. 106 |
Religiosity and the allocation of household chores | p. 109 |
Religiosity and housework among Uyghur couples | p. 110 |
Family processes and housework among Uyghurs | p. 115 |
Supplementary analyses | p. 120 |
6 Who manages the household? | p. 122 |
Why must household management be studied? | p. 123 |
How is household management measured? | p. 124 |
Gender and household management | p. 125 |
The gendered division of household management in Ürümchi | p. 126 |
Possible accounts of the gendered division of household management | p. 134 |
Religiosity and household management | p. 135 |
Family processes and household management | p. 140 |
Supplementary analyses | p. 144 |
7 Who's the boss? | p. 146 |
What is family power? | p. 146 |
The distribution of family power among Uyghurs | p. 148 |
Relative resources and gender inequality in domestic power | p. 152 |
Gender ideology and family power | p. 156 |
Islamic affiliation and family power | p. 157 |
Religiosity and family power in Urumchi | p. 158 |
Family work and spousal power | p. 161 |
Family processes and domestic power | p. 165 |
Supplementary analyses | p. 169 |
8 All in the family | p. 172 |
Gender inequalities and parities among Uyghurs | p. 172 |
Why is religiosity a weak mechanism of gender inequality? | p. 174 |
Why are family processes a major mechanism of gender inequality? | p. 177 |
Policy implications | p. 179 |
Notes | p. 181 |
References | p. 209 |
Index | p. 229 |