BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//eluceo/ical//2.0/EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8041fd0444372bfff4ae510eb5747658 DTSTAMP:20260916T123145Z SUMMARY:Gender\, Families\, and Wealth Accumulation Among Only Daughters DESCRIPTION:Contact: kimhean.hok@ace.lu.se\n\nAbstractPrior literature on g ender and wealth accumulation largely examines the role of families in rep roducing inequalities. However\, less attention has been paid to families without sons\, a significant demographic\, particularly within China's one -child generation\, that challenges conventional understandings of familia l wealth dynamics. This study addresses this gap by proposing a new concep tual framework: families as sequential and interconnected sites and agents of wealth accumulation across the life course. It specifically applies th is framework to investigate the experiences of siblingless daughters from China's one-child generation. Drawing upon 82 individual interviews\, this research argues that families are dynamic and sequentially unfolding site s of wealth transfers\, acting as both enablers and limiters of women’s wealth accumulation. This perspective reveals how family structures\, reso urces\, and roles transform and interact at various life-course stages. Th e findings demonstrate that siblingless daughters are significant recipien ts of wealth transfers—including cash\, valuables\, and property—from multiple givers across key life-course stages such as university education \, career entry\, and marriage and childbirth. While wealth transfers with in natal families are often relatively uncontested\, access to marital wea lth remains highly contingent on women’s adherence to patriarchal expect ations\, particularly childbearing and the production of male heirs. By hi ghlighting a life-course lens and the evolving\, relational nature of fami ly-based wealth transfers\, this study exposes consistent yet competing re lationships and power dynamics. It reveals instances of merit-based opport unity within these dynamics\, alongside the reinforcement of enduring patr iarchal constraints. This new conceptualisation not only allows for a deep er examination of persistent patriarchal constraints as they evolve and ac cumulate across life-course points\, but also exposes niche spaces where s ome women negotiate and potentially subvert these constraints to accumulat e wealth. Therefore\, this study advances research on gender and wealth by illuminating the complex interplay of familial relationships\, resources\ , and roles across the sequential life course. \;Biography: \;I am a Reader (Associate Professor) at the Department of International Develop ment\, King’s College London\, UK. My research focuses on systems of ine quality – how culture and policy reproduce education and gender inequali ties in contemporary China. My first book\, Higher Education\, Meritocracy and Inequality in China (Springer\, 2016)\, explores how educational poli cies and the notion of meritocracy intersect to reproduce socioeconomic\, gender\, and geographical inequalities through China’s notoriously tough gaokao college entrance exam. My work also investigates the implications of China’s shifting demographic policies on gender inequality in the wor kplace\, family life\, and work–family and intergenerational relationshi ps. My second book-Only Daughters: Chinese women and the one-child policy is currently under contract with Princeton University Press. Gender &\; Society\, Sociology\, Work\, Employment &\; Society\, the British Jour nal of Sociology of Education\, Comparative Education Review\, Higher Educ ation\, and the Journal International Education and Development have publi shed my scholarship. My article on China’s siblingless daughters has bee n nominated for the 2025 Sage Prize for Innovation and Excellence. Outside academia\, I have written for the Conversation\, Foreign Affairs\, and th e Diplomat. References to my research have appeared in the Financial Times \, the Guardian\, BBC News\, the Protocol\, the ChinaFile\, the South Chin a Morning Post\, the CNBC\, the Reuters News\, and Times Higher Education. My media appearances include the Financial Times Global Boardroom\, the B BC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour\, the BBC Why Factor\, the National Committee of the US-China Relations Podcast\, the China Changing Festival at the South bank \;Centre\, and the Guardian Live Event. \;This event is part of the Perspective Asia Lecture Series\n\nMore information about the event : https://www.ace.lu.se/calendar/gender-families-and-wealth-accumulation-a mong-only-daughters DTSTART;TZID=GMT:20250917T131500 DTEND;TZID=GMT:20250917T150000 LOCATION:Asia Library\, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies\, Söl vegatan 18 B\, Lund END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR