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This article analyzes gender attitudes and behaviors of husbands and wives across three urban Chinese cohorts. While women remain egalitarian in gender ideology across cohorts, the percentage of men who hold egalitarian gender attitudes declines significantly across cohorts. At the same time, the division of household labor has become somewhat less inequitable for women; however, their expectations of equality appear to have changed faster than the division of labor. Men's attitudes reflect a backlash to egalitarian pressures from their wives and the state, with significantly negative implications for their partner's marriage quality. (Contains 13 notes, 3 tables and 3 figures.)

This article analyzes gender attitudes and behaviors of husbands and wives across three urban Chinese cohorts. While women remain egalitarian in gender ideology across cohorts, the percentage of men who hold egalitarian gender attitudes declines significantly across cohorts. At the same time, the division of household labor has become somewhat less inequitable for women; however, their expectations of equality appear to have changed faster than the division of labor. Men's attitudes reflect a backlash to egalitarian pressures from their wives and the state, with significantly negative implications for their partner's marriage quality. Keywords: attitudes, China, gender, marriage

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In this paper, we model histories of coresidence between two cohorts of urban Chinese couples, married during the Cultural Revolution and early market reform periods. Most research on coresidence pictures families cross-sectionally, but nuclear households are a natural part of extended coresidence systems that prefer stem family arrangements. We study histories of coresidence to determine what predicts ever having coresided with the husband's parents, comparing the predictive power of modernization theory to the impact of demographic change, the availability of household members, and the resources and needs of each generation. While married children's needs for childcare do not propel them into coresidence. they strongly predict the likelihood of staying coresident. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the interrelations of work experiences and occupational values in a panel of 1,000 ninth-graders followed: over a four-year period. Neither employment itself nor hours of work had substantial, effects on occupational value formation. However the opportunity to learn useful skills at work was a consistent positive influence on increasingly stable intrinsic and extrinsic value dimensions. We conclude that the central finding of research on work and adult psychological functioning - that the conditions of work are what matter - can be generalized to adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]