Prof. Dai Haijing (Principal Investigator) and her research team including Prof. Tong Yuying and Prof. Jin Lei (Department of Sociology, CUHK), Prof. Song Jing (Gender Studies Programme, CUHK), Prof. Wu Qiaobing (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) and Dr. Meng Hong (Shenzhen University) (Co-Investigators) have succeeded to obtain a prestigious General Research Fund from the Research Grants Council (2020/2021) for her project titled “Gender and Family Care Responsibilities in Job Search: A Comparative Study of Hong Kong and Shenzhen”. The amount funded is HK$945,184.
The aim of this project is to conduct mixed-methods and comparative research in Hong Kong and Shenzhen on how job applicants’ gender and various family care responsibilities affect employers’ evaluations and hiring decisions in different employment contexts and in different welfare systems. This study adopts comparative and cross-cultural perspectives to examine the separate and interwoven effects of gender and various family care responsibilities in the job market, and emphasizes the importance of further understanding these effects in different structural contexts and through different welfare systems. Its findings will not only enrich our theoretical knowledge of gender, family care, paid labor market, and workplace inequality, but also inform evidence-based service planning and policymaking to achieve family support, labor protection, work-family balance, and social justice.
Congratulations to Haijing and her team!