The Influences Of The Rural Old’s Health On Married Women’s Non-Agricultural Employment

Since the reform, the rate of both non-agricultural population and non-agricultural employment have raised rapidly. Rural surplus labors’non-agricultural transformation is not only a vital issue of rural development, but also necessary to economics and social development. During the transformation, rural females are not in the same pace with males. Under the background of household division, rural males released from agriculture activities and got into non-agricultural industry earlier than the females. Rural females have to undertake more burdens of agriculture and housework. Therefore, the rate of non-agricultural employment of rural females’is much lower. Based on the structure of rural family, married women’s dual burden are more obviously.Under the traditional structure of rural family, married women are the main labor to take care of the old who are considered to be a burden and will hinder women’s non-agriculture employment according to previous studies. It is neglect that the old will become substitute labor force to married women under a good healthy condition. This paper is tried to focus on the old people’s health inequalities, analyze it from different aspects and make further study on the influence on married women’s non-agricultural employment. It will not only be a complement to the previous studies, but also have certain significance for further study of married women’s non-agricultural employment.On the foundation of Chinese Nutrition and Health Survey data (2006), rural families in which old people and married women live together were selected as research sample in this paper. Based on a related descriptive statistics and cross-analysis, this paper used binary Logistic model to examine the influence of the old people’s health on married women’s non-agricultural employment. In the regression phase, three variables on behalf of the old people’s health were introduced into the model, together with married women’s personal characteristics and family characteristics. Regression results showed that: Self-assessed health, illness severity, as well as action ability of the old people had a major impact on married women’s non-agricultural employment. In addition, married women’s age, education level and family characteristics such as land area, number of children, and number of old people also had a significant impact on non-agricultural employment.Finally, the conclusions of this research were presented based on the above analysis. And according to practical situation, relevant suggestions were also proposed.