About
Junrong Sheng studies gender inequality, family demography, and intergenerational dynamics in China and the United States. Her current projects investigate family dynamics in the context of the stalled gender revolution in China, focusing on two central questions:
- How do extended family structures shape gendered beliefs and practices, thereby perpetuating or challenging the gender inequality in the private sphere?
- How do women negotiate their own versions of the stalled gender revolution in everyday family life, and how do these negotiations differ across nuclear, patrilocal, and matrilocal families?
In addition, she traces the paradox between Chinese women's achievements in the labor market and the persistent gender gap at home to the legacies of the pre-reform China. Her previous publication reflects her efforts to understand how gendered and political discourses from that era serve as precursors to the stagnant progress toward gender equality today.
