Research On Country Family Gender Relations Since The Female Go Out Working

According to the fourth quarter news report of the year of2013from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People’s Republic of China, the number of migrant workers by the end of the fourth quarter of2014is272,300, raising by1,300. The development of "Migrant Working Economy" made travel out no longer belong to the men exclusively, more and more women also took part in this great trend. The going out of women disintegrated the families’ traditions to the traditional country family. In recent years, the number of women travel out in Wanghe Village in central China is increasing annually. The thesis take migrant women workers as the entry point while focus on the situation in Wanghe Village, make a deep analysis on the relationship between genders of the women families and migrant working from the perspective of sociology by using research approaches such as depth interview and participant observation. The thesis made introduction of the affection to the gender relationship of women’s’ families by migrant working through the research on the relationship of the power sharing, workforce sharing and resource control in families.Part one, current state of women migrant working. The age of unmarried women who traveled out from Wanghe Village usually at around16years old or just by their graduation form junior high school, they will come back to get married and give birth to baby after certain years and then decide whether travel out again by the actual situation of the family. For the married women, economy is the main cause of travel out. Their jobs are mainly belong to the third services’ industry and factory plotlines, while some of them also self-employed by following with their husbands.Part two, affection of gender relation in family from migrant working of unmarried women. The gender relation in family of unmarried women mainly revealed in intergeneration category, migrant working helped them get rid of the band of patriarchy mode of marriage, reinforced their right of voices in the family and let them take more part in the decision making process of great events of the family. Migrant working also increased their capital of mates’ selection, they are more lately get married and give birth to baby and care more about emotional values of the marriage when compared with those ones who stay at home. In aspect of labor sharing, migrant working limited their shares of housework but ensured the values created by their working. Their labor sharing at home gradually transferred from house-working without any pay back to works which have economic pay backs. Salaries gained in migrant working also let them made great economical contribution to the families. They have more free.time and getting more opportunities of family resources’ disposing.Part three, affection of gender relation in family from migrant working of married women. The gender relation in family of married women mainly revealed in inter-couple category, those who travels out with their husbands expressed that the power-sharing state in their families did not change, women who went out individually gained more individual rights and freedom. They have more rights to decide on family event than their husbands. Generally speaking, the inter couple relationship which is unfair before the migrant working will keep the same after the working and vice versa. In aspect of labor sharing, just as the state of unmarried women, they should less housework than they travels out, especially in aspect of children raising, most women who travels out often left their children to the elders or husbands who stay at home. The inter-couples’ housework sharing did not greatly changed.It is concluded after the above analysis that the traveling out of the country women gained economical income and changed the living mode of he Chinese traditional village families. As the transitional band of village and city, tradition and modern, the existing of migrant working women promoted the changing of village family relationships. They changed the traditional gender family relationships which take male family members at the leadership and forming a new gender labor sharing mode which is more flexible.