Economics Of Gender Experiences On Chinese Labour Market
Business Finance
Can choose from Canada China India USA
Note: Neatness counts. You can type your answers if you would like to. Long sentences may not get read.
Your assignment should be in an essay format. The assignment should be at least 5-6 pages, double spaced,
12 point font, Times New Roman.
1. Talk to your grandmothers (or someone at similar ages) and mothers (or someone at similar ages). Ask
them about their experience on labor market, fertility decision, timing of their fertility decision, marriage,
the age they got married, their education, earnings and occupations, whether they worked full-time or parttime,
their work experience, whether they were discriminated at work, work interruptions, bargaining for
their pay and work conditions, their opinion about the duties of women in the household, the distribution
of duties between husband and wives, who controls the money in the household, how they spent household
income, etc.
2. Compare their experience with the concepts covered in the class (i.e. whether their experiences are
similar to the Canadian and American women or they had very different experience). Cite at least 4 papers
covered in the class in your assignment
