妇女、时间与生育

Females,Time and Childbearing

关于时间的学术研究由来已久,但少有人从时间特性的角度考察时间利用的性别差异,人们更少从生育这一生活事件看待女性对时间的把握。本文利用已有文献和2010年中国妇女社会地位抽样调查的全国数据,讨论传统时间与现代时间观念的差异和女性日常生活中时间的特质。文章还重点分析了生育给女性生活造成的传统和现代时间交替出现的现实,指出在分析中国妇女生活与工作平衡问题时,应考虑平衡背后的时间观念和时间价值的问题,重视现代社会中传统时间与现代时间并存且相互争夺的现实。

Time has been a topic of academic research for a long time. However, few people have discussed gender difference in the use of time from the perspective of the characteristics of time ; and even fewer scholars have examined how females make use of time in such an event in life as childbearing. By using the existing documents and the nationwide data from the 2010 survey on Chinese females＇ social status, this article discusses the difference between the concepts of time in traditional and modern senses, and the characteristics of females＇ use of time in their daily life. This article especially analyzes the reality in which childbearing causes the alternate occurrence of the use of time in traditional and modern senses in females＇ life. Our analysis indicates that when we examine the issue of the balance between life and work on the part of Chinese females, we must take into consideration the issues concerning the concept and value of time behind this balance. We should not ignore the reality in modern society, where time in traditional sense and time in modern sense coexist, and sometimes they try to seize each other.