How Do People Define Women’s Success in Chinese Cyberspace

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10.2991/assehr.k.201214.600How to use a DOI?

Keywords

gender roles, women’s success, social media, gender issues, China

Abstract

The comment “a woman’s biggest failure is not having a child of her own” triggered heated debate on Chinese social media, which demonstrates that most Chinese people do support women’s autonomy and rights of choice. The finding contradicts the criticism that Chinese women encounter in daily life. The qualitative text analysis and quantitative content analysis of 168 comments on defining women’s success on Zhihu (a Chinese question-and-answer website) reveal the seemingly progressive discourse reveals that people exaggerate women’s autonomy and overlook the gender issues which constrain women’s rights.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Luomei Lyu
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/16
TI  - How Do People Define Women’s Success in Chinese Cyberspace
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 3rd International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 746
EP  - 750
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201214.600
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201214.600
ID  - Lyu2020
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