China’s 35-year one-child policy ended in 2015, becoming first a “universal two-child” policy and then a “three-child” policy in June 2021.  This talk presents the background of family, marriage and gender ideology in China, reviews the one-child policy and female employment trends, explores the impact of one-child policy reform on female employment in the new era, and discusses social policy solutions in response to new challenges, to support gender equality and family wellbeing.

Speakers:

Jing GUO is an Associate Professor in the Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health at UHM. She received her PhD in social welfare from the University of California, Berkeley and an MA in social welfare from Peking University, China. Dr. Guo’s research centers on comparative family policy in relation to work-family balance, gender equality and child development.

Meirong LIU is an Associate Professor at the Howard University School of Social Work. Her research concerns service delivery for low-income families and helping develop innovative social welfare policy and program strategies to improve low-income families’ access to benefits.

Co-Sponsor:

UH Department of Social Work