| After 20 years' reform in economic structure, China is now on the way to the implementation of institutional transformation from Planned economy to Socialist market economy. As the reform of the state-enterprises is carried forward, the problems of unemployment and re-employment in the urban areas have emerged and become more and more serious. Compared with man, women are more pitiable victims when confronted by the crisis of unemployment for there are more female laid-offs than male ones and women are about to have more barriers to overcome before they are re-employed.Much attention from all walks of life has been paid to the re-employment of these urban laid-off women. Chinese government and its policy-making departments concerned have carried out effective studies on it, and some constructive solutions have been worked out. Unfortunately, both the means and quality of the re-employment have been ignored more or less when all efforts had been made on raising the rate of re-employment. A recent social research says that the earning gap between female and male is widening. Therefore, further studies should be carried on the means of re-employment and further efforts should be made on upgrading the quality of re-employment.From both sociological and economic perspectives, this paper, rooted in the theories concerning sociological and economic status attainment makes a thorough probe on the re-employment of the urban female laid-offs in the period of institutional transformation. Through analysis of the possible means of re-employment and their effectiveness, this thesis states that the main factors which blocks the efficiency of systematical re-employment are the irregularity and segmentation of the labor market, as well as the discrimination against woman. Accordingly, this thesis provides some constructive suggests and counter-measures for the promotion of the re-employment of the female laid-offs in cities.
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