Gender Norms Previously Favored Males Compared to Females

Gender Norms in PRC
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Gender Norms in PRC
Gender inequality is one of the grassroots problems that has affected most of the Chinese population. Inequitable gender norms most affect both males' and females' well-being, thereby inducing gender-based violence among families (Pulerwitz et al. 2015). Some of the common that most Chinese people exercise include taking men as the supreme decision-makers in the family, allowing men to maintain multiple sexual partners also the justification of physical violence against partners. The gender norms that patronize men against women are usually internalized from childhood (Pulerwitz et al. 2015). Gender discrimination often makes women have less control over some common behaviors, including negotiating on condom use, ability to travel to various places, and the act of society condoning some discriminative treatment against women.
In China, there is has been constant political support towards gender equality. However, evidence shows there have cases of gender inequality which are usually associated with the feminization of poverty of women among the urban and rural populations (Xu & Cory 2019). This increases the labor market's rift, especially regarding income gaps and job recruitments, and lowers women and girls' status. According to China's Gender Equality and Women's Development Report, 30% of the total population has encountered domestic and gender-based violence (Pulerwitz et al. 2015). Also, the strict adherence to cultural norms in the country has been closely associated with most intimate violence among marriage partners. Intending to rectify gender-based violence in the country, various organizations such as PATH, with Nike Foundation's help, have cooperated with China Family Planning Association to evaluate and initiate and intervention-focused methods in promoting gender equity and equality in the country (Pulerwitz et al. 2015). The main objective for these associations was a close examination of the gender-related norms and attitudes, which will help the organizations reduce dangerous behaviors such as sexual abuse and partner violence and support equality in girls' treatment. The partnership has worked with various home appliances companies and international consumer electronics to initiate the intervention in their factories their vocational training centers.
Several studies show that most of the gender gaps exist due to personal characters, psychological characters, sense of competition, institutional and traditional impacts (Pulerwitz et al. 2015). Firstly, the causes have been divided broadly to be associated with mental health and formal requirements. The two greatly impact the perception of how men take women and also how women take men. Gender inequality has been greatly associated with cultural norms in the country, and it is ideally the cultures that foster the inequitable treatment of women in the country (He et al. 2018). From the recent research findings, gender role attitudes in some of the traditional practices such as plowing agricultural systems have been present over several decades. They have spearheaded gender discrimination and inequality among the Chinese, especially in the labor ...