“女性发展与性别平等——中德比较研究”研讨会综述

Summary of the Academic Workshop “Women's Development and Gender Equality:Comparison between China and Germany”

对"女性发展和性别平等"理论与实践进行中德之间的比较研究,既能增进彼此了解,又可促进相互学习。回顾历史,中德两国妇女运动的产生有着各自的时代背景以及不同的发展路径。当代女性形象未能摆脱刻板僵化的性别角色模式,并常常受到媒体和商业化误导的影响。在女性就业方面,德方专家强调了"贯穿整个生命周期的性别平等"理念,中方专家则提出了提高女性就业质量、女性平等获取资源、为家庭工作平衡提供政策支持等建议。全球女性主义起源于上世纪80年代,旨在拓宽女性主义思想的范围;而社会性别主流化作为联合国促进性别平等的全球战略,20多年来在中国取得了诸多方面的成就,同时也面临着挑战。

Comparative research on the theory and practice of“Women’s Development and Gender Equality”in China and Germany can promote the mutual understanding and learning from each other.A review of the history of both countries’women’s movements shows different origins and development paths.Women’s image today is still strongly connected to stereotyped gender roles,coupled with the negative influence of media and market. As to the employment of women,the German experts stressed the main idea of“lifelong gender equality”,while the Chinese experts made suggestions on the improvement of women’s employment opportunities,equal access of women to economic resources,as well as policies supporting work -family balance.The global feminist movement emerged in the middle of the 1980s,aiming at broadening feminist thought.The implementation of Gender Mainstreaming,the global strategy of the United Nations to promote gender equality,has achieved vari-ous successes in China over the last two decades,while challenges still remain.