Career Patterns and Policies of Female Leaders in China

Research Framework and Methods.- Significance of Balanced Patterns for Leaders in Gender Structure.- A Brief Introduction of Female Leaders: An Analysis Based on Census Data.- Research Review on Female Leaders at Home and Abroad.- Capital Accumulation of Female Leaders.- Ideology of Gender Equality Encourages Women to Become Leaders.- Gender-friendly Environment is Essential.- Wisdom on the Balance of Family and Work.- Factors Affecting Female Leaders in Politics.- Party Mechanism of Political Participation of Female Leaders.- Characteristics of Female Leaders in Politics in Social Transformation.- Career Promotion for Women at Bureau-Director Level from Life Course Perspective.- Situation and Characteristics of Female Professionals.- Upward Mobility of Female Professionals and Affecting Factors.- Gender Segregation and Institutional Discrimination in Professional Fields.- Career Patterns of Female Senior Executives in Enterprises.- Career Patterns of Female Entrepreneurs.- Investing on Women: China's New Engine of Development.- Policies for Promoting the Growth of Female Leaders in Politics.- Policies for Promoting the Growth of Female Professionals.- Policies for Promoting Women in Enterprise Management.- Postscript.- Bibliography.

The AuthorXin Tong is the professor and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Sociology at Peking University. She is currently the Deputy Director of the Center for Chinese and Foreign Women's Studies at Peking University, the Chief Expert of the major research projects in the philosophy and social science research of the Ministry of Education on Career Patterns of Female Leaders in China, the Director of the Chinese Workers and Labor Research Center of the Department of Sociology at Peking University. Besides, she is also a member of the Executive Committee of the All-China Women's Federation, the Vice President of the Marriage and Family Research Association of China, the President of the Beijing Marriage and Family Research Association, the Vice Secretary-General of the China Women's (Gender) Theory Research Association, the President of the Women's/Gender Research Committee of the Chinese Sociological Association, and the Vice President of the Society of Labor Sociology of the Chinese Sociological Association. At the same time, she is also the member of the Central Committee of the China Association for Promoting Democracy, the Director of the Women and Children Committee of the China Association for Promoting Democracy, and the member of the Committee of Directors of the China Association for Promoting Democracy at Peking University. In terms of academic journals, she is a member of the special editorial board of the Journal of Chinese Women's Studies and the Journal of Shandong Women's University and a member of the Expert Committee of the Medium and Long-term Youth Development Plan (2016-2025). Her representative works include: Introduction to the Gender Studies (Peking University Press), Career Patterns and Policies of Female Leaders in China, etc.; and her co-authored papers include: The Present Situation of Gender Attitudes and the Factors Influencing Them [Social Science in China, 2014(2)], A Model of Conjugal Cooperationin Housework for