Junrong Sheng

Cohort

2019

Subfields

Gender and Family, Sociology of Development, Sociology of Education

Profile

Junrong Sheng's research focuses on the stalled gender revolution and intra-household dynamics in China as well as its comparison with American society. She has been studying:

1) How do family structures and intergenerational dynamics, as contextual factors, influence gender dynamics and women's status in the private sphere?

2) How do women live their own versions of the stalled gender revolution in the private sphere?

Meanwhile, she finds that the paradox between Chinese women's achievements in the public sphere and their compliance with traditional gender practices in the private sphere today can trace its origin in the pre-reform China: Despite the state launched some pro-women policies and encouraged women's participation in the labor market, it remained to be highly patriarchal. Therefore, her recent research has investigated this paradox in pre-reform China, to understand how it might shape the stagnant gender progress in China today.