Gender Differences in Han Chinese culture - The birth of a male child secures the status of a woman.

The Urban Chinese family: Nuclear- is the preferred form of family setting Stem- i.e., a family with a married couple, children, and another relative, usually a parent organized around notions of bilateral descent and neolocal residence practices The state also constructed ceremonial arches and shrines for widows who refused to remarry or committed suicide upon the deaths of their husbands. Women appear to use a more complicated calculus that includes facial symmetry, relative age, and social position in assessing a mans overall physical appearance. Wen is based on the ideal of cultural attainment or gentility, whereas wu is anchored in the qualities of martial valor. Most young men believe that women are equal to men in most things. The measure of a man is often determined by how well he fulfills his numerous family duties. Throughout the history of Imperial China males were preferred over females. When a girl is born, people will call the event small happiness, but when it is a male the event is called big happiness.

A long life celebration ritual for 100-day-old infants, regardless of gender, is practiced in the countryside. Boys are given greater freedom and are not controlled in the same way as girls. but middle school, which is more expensive, usually finds parents investing more in their sons education. The most notable shift to adulthood is marriage, which begins in countryside when a girl turns 21 and a boy is 23 years old. obtaining a job and a separate apartment away from ones parents marks adulthood. The Chinese believe that the difference between men and women is a byproduct of biological and cultural forces.

Women: women were expected to be chaste and obedient. Men: -Men were linked to their fathers patrilineage while remaining emotionally bonded to their mothers.\