Historical Changes of Women’s Employment in the Early Years of the Republic of China (1915-1931)

-——A Case Study of The Ladies’ Journal

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10.2991/978-2-38476-440-2_89How to use a DOI?

Keywords

The Ladies’ Journal; Motherhood; Women’s Careers

Abstract

During the New Culture Movement and the May Fourth Movement, society witnessed a wave of women’s liberation movements. This paper focuses on exploring women’s careers with The Ladies’ Journal (Funü zazhi) as the core. The magazine shows the diverse definitions of women’s careers. The relationship between motherhood and women’s careers suggests that women’s careers should be separate from traditional, gendered labor within the home, on the other hand, women’s career choices are an extension of women’s domestic labor. Combined with Western experience, the magazine gives measures to promote women’s employment. In conclusion, the employment of women advocated by Chinese intellectuals could be a continuation and deformation of traditional motherhood.

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AU  - Yihan Li
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/07/10
TI  - Historical Changes of Women’s Employment in the Early Years of the Republic of China (1915-1931)
BT  - Proceedings of the 2025 11th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research（ICHSSR 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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