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Gender, Work Burden, and Mental Health in Post-Reform China

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  • Lan Liu
  • Fiona MacPhail
  • Xiao-yuan Dong

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This study investigates how total work burden, including paid work and unpaid care work, affects the mental health of prime-age, employed women and men in urban China. Based on the 2010 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), regression results indicate that total work burden is negatively related to the mental health of both men and women, consistent with the idea that additional work hours reduce time available for rest and leisure. Women have longer working hours and are more likely to be time poor than men, and this gender inequality in total work burden contributes to the gender gap in mental health. The relationships between the components of total work burden – paid and unpaid work – and mental health shed further light on the strength of gender norms and the barriers to redistribution of unpaid work from women to men necessary to reduce the gender gap in mental health.

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  • Lan Liu & Fiona MacPhail & Xiao-yuan Dong, 2018. "Gender, Work Burden, and Mental Health in Post-Reform China," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(2), pages 194-217, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:femeco:v:24:y:2018:i:2:p:194-217
    DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2017.1384557
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    1. de Bruin, Anne & Liu, Na, 2020. "The urbanization-household gender inequality nexus: Evidence from time allocation in China," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 60(C).
    2. Chiara Piovani & Nursel Aydiner-Avsar, 2021. "Work Time Matters for Mental Health: A Gender Analysis of Paid and Unpaid Labor in the United States," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 53(4), pages 579-589, December.
    3. Tehmina Fiaz Qazi & Abdul Aziz Khan Niazi & Abdul Basit & Abdul Rehman & Aysha Nazir, 2019. "The Jostle of Workplace Pressures on Credit Managers: Interpretive Structural Modeling to Underpin the Severity," Bulletin of Business and Economics (BBE), Research Foundation for Humanity (RFH), vol. 8(3), pages 155-163, September.
    4. Athary Janiso & Prakash Kumar Shukla & Bheemeshwar Reddy A, 2024. "What explains the gender gap in unpaid housework and care work in India?," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 42(1), January.

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