Women under one-child policy

In this presentation, we will talk about women rights and status under China's one-child policy. Many studies and news reports in the west highly criticized this policy as a violation against universal human rights, one of the accusations is it resulted in large amount of missing girls, through gender-selective abortion and infanticide. It is thought to have reinforced of son preference in Chinese society.

On the other hand, the birth control policy is popularized among Chinese public for numerous reasons. Many accept the reason given by the Chinese state that the limited resources within the country could hardly afford too much population, the nation's modernization will be hindered by the overpopulation problem. To raise the quality of life of the masses, the country should adopt birth control policy. So the policy is essentially good, the serious problems occurr during the implementation process.

However, in this presentation, we would like to take a standpoint that seeing the one-child policy itself neutral as a tool or a strategy used by the Chinese state to deal with its population issue. We argue that the various social conditions in diverse places as the independent variable [within the conditions, they are correlated and interplayed with each other, such as economic, social, cultural and political factors] help to shape the implementation process and the results of the state birth control policy which is the dependent variable in local places. So far we have heard the negative consequences of the policy like the missing girls in some places, there may also be some different or definitely positive outcomes. We will discuss the possible positive ones in terms of woman's status in family and society in this presentaion.

The presentation is organized as......