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“What He Did Was Lawful”: Divorce Litigation and Gender Inequality inChina
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Sociolegal research has shed considerable light on gender inequality in the civil justice system. Existing research, however, rarely looks beyond court proceedings to examine gender inequality stemming from the prior stages in civil litigation. This article fills the gap by addressing the question of whether and how the early moments in disputing produce inequality between women and men. Based on a mixed‐methods study of divorce litigation in C hina, I identify two critical moments in the early stages in disputing: the initiation stage and the suit‐filing stage. Findings from the two stages indicate that, early on in disputing, the legal profession routinely dismisses and violates women's rights in marriage and family. Moreover, due to the legal profession's failure to convert important rights on the books into formal claims, women's marital grievances and rights claims fall through cracks long before they can enter court proceedings. These findings suggest that gender inequality can result not only from judicial decision making, but also from dispute processing conducted prior to—and outside of—court proceedings.
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“When female disputants in the observational sample raised concerns about child custody, half of them were subjected to status-based stereotyping.”
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“During the examination of the archival sample, I noticed that plaintiffs and their legal representatives made differing claims before they entered formal court proceedings.”
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“Divert complaint of domestic violence 50.0%”
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“Findings from ethnographic observations indicate that, early on in the course of disputing, legal professionals routinely subject women to gender biases and stereotypes.”
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“Archival research on divorce petitions, however, reveals that the legal profession-a key agent of dispute transformation-frequently fails to convert important rights on the books into formal claims.”
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“Normalize spousal abuse 43.8%”
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“Upon learning of female disputants' intentions to contend for child custody, legal workers launched various efforts, not to help them realize custodial rights, but to block their attempts at legal mobilization.”
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“Instruct to buy off the spouse 16.7% 11.1%”
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“Instruct to forgo marital property 0% 50.0%”
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“Invoke status-based stereotypes 0% 50.0%”
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“Between 2005 and 2009, it processed nearly 300 cases, and more than half were related to divorce.”
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“while female disputants were frequently subjected to overt or covert obstruction from legal workers, male disputants rarely encountered similar impediments to their pursuit of child custody.”
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“I identify two critical moments in the early stages in disputing: the initiation stage and the suit-filing stage.”
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“Over 70 percent of these divorce cases involved a female disputant seeking legal assistance-only 20 percent or so concerned a male disputant pursuing similar services.”
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“Two strategies deployed by legal workers warrant close scrutiny: status-based stereotyping and manipulative interpretation of state law.”
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“In the county where Guxiao and Xiqing were located, there were a total of thirty-one legal workers, and merely six were female.”
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“Among the twenty-four interactions, eighteen saw a wife raising questions about property and/or debt, and six witnessed a husband or in-laws voicing concerns in this regard.”
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“In the end, the wife walked away from the meeting with the impression that the husband's conduct was entirely”
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“Legal worker: Well, [in that case] what he did was lawful.”
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“In the end, the woman lost custody of both children to the husband.”
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“Again and again, he tried to drive home the same message: custodial rights, as part of the”
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“What further tipped the playing field was the fact that the husband's lawyer had close ties with the local court (he came from a law firm whose founder happened to be the father of a judge).”
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“No advice was given to the women with regard to evidence collection, and no information was provided to inform them of their rights as victims of domestic violence, despite the Marriage Law's express stipulation on this matter.”
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“Toward the end of the meeting, the legal worker instructed the disputant to gather evidence, not to establish her legal status as a victim, but to merely prove that she did not get along with the husband.”
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“Table 2 shows that this strategy was exclusively imposed on female disputants but not on male disputants.”
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“Nationwide, despite women's increasing entry into the practice of law over the past decade, they make up only a small percentage of the various legal professions (Liu 2013).”
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“by differently shaping women and men's perceptions of grievances, by remaking or unmaking their rights claims-and more fundamentally, by channeling some but not other grievances into court proceedings-legal professionals exercise great power in determining law's limits in engineering egalitarian social changes.”
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“After entering archival records, field notes, and interview transcripts into NVivo, I coded and recoded the three sources of data, consistently searching for gender-based themes and patterns.”
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“The semipublic nature of the setting, together with my status as a native Chinese speaker, rendered my observations of the face-to-face interactions between legal workers and marital disputants much less obtrusive than they otherwise might have been.”
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“As Landon (1990) argued, for those who practice law in rural contexts, community characteristics often serve as the prior and fundamental source of structuring for their disputing strategies.”
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“Existing laws remain unclear whether or not the court system can forcefully enforce its rulings on child custody, and judges continue to debate the issue (Li 2013;Zhang 2013;Liu 2010).”
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“Consequently, legal mobilization leaves women's custodial, property, and spousal rights partially or entirely unrealized and the state's promise of gender equality unfulfilled.”
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“Today, women lawyers not only make up a much smaller percentage of the legal profession, but also continue to fall behind their male colleagues in terms of income, promotion, and partnership attainment (Michelson 2009).”
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“Had the legal worker conducted a more careful investigation of the situation, the female villager might have received very different legal opinions.”
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“Seen from this perspective, if the plaintiff-more often than not the wife-relinquished property claims, the defendant would be more likely to cooperate in divorce proceedings, thereby paving the way for subsequent settlements.”
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“In doing so, legal workers simplified subsequent court proceedings and, in turn, reduced the time and energy invested in individual cases.”
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“By asserting control over their main clientele (i.e., wife-plaintiffs) and by keeping clients' property claims out of divorce proceedings, legal workers not only minimize their time investment, but also facilitate judges to reach divorce settlements-an important effort to remain on good terms with institutional insiders.”
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“First of all, due to their disadvantageous positions at home and in the community, female disputants tend to have weaker social ties and less political power, and are thereby less effective in legal mobilization than their male counterparts.”
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“According to China Institute of Applied Jurisprudence of the Supreme People's Court (2008), 29.7 to 35.7 percent of Chinese families suffer from domestic violence, and over 90 percent of the victims are women.”
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“After all, the initiation stage and the suitfiling stage identified by this study can be found in civil litigation in other cultural contexts.”
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A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“This study represents a first step toward a more complete understanding of women's interactions with the civil justice system.”
§ "What He Did Was Lawful": Divorce Litigation and Gender Inequality in China > DISCUSSION
plainn = 2- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: fails — It may be too vague to check against evidence.
- Load-bearing: fails — The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
- Rests on an assumption: Survey research conducted in Western countries and in China provides little information about gender differences in access to justice, because much of it has been collected at the household level.
The paper relies on this without support.
The 60 face-to-face interactions in the observational sample are representative of legal workers' interactions with rural disputants in Guxiao and Xiqing.
“I did so by observing and recording a sample of sixty face-to-face interactions (hereafter referred to as the observational sample): forty centered on legal workers' meetings with female disputants and the other twenty with male disputants.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The 171 divorce lawsuits in the archival sample are representative of divorce litigation in the two townships.
“After clearing incomplete case records, I formed a sample of 171 divorce lawsuits (hereafter referred to as the archival sample).”
The paper relies on this without support.
Legal workers' claim-making in the sampled divorce petitions reflects the legal profession's claim-making activities more broadly.
“To this intent, I reviewed divorce petitions legal workers submitted to the courts, with a particular focus on their claim making regarding child custody, property division, and domestic violence-the most typically contested issues in divorce lawsuits.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Gender disparities in legal workers' responses are due to gender bias rather than other factors such as case characteristics or client behavior.
“Using ethnographic examples retrieved from the observational sample, this section demonstrates how gender disparities emerged from divorcing women and men's initial encounters with the legal profession.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The semipublic setting did not substantially alter legal workers' behavior during observed interactions.
“The semipublic nature of the setting, together with my status as a native Chinese speaker, rendered my observations of the face-to-face interactions between legal workers and marital disputants much less obtrusive than they otherwise might have been.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The two townships Guxiao and Xiqing are representative of rural China for the purpose of generalizing about divorce litigation and gender inequality.
“With the backdrop described above in mind, I conducted a mixed-methods study of divorce litigation in two townships in southwest China: Guxiao and Xiqing (the names are pseudonyms).”
The paper relies on this without support.
The legal workers' office records are complete and accurate.
“This effort grew into a systematic examination of all the 211 divorce case records I could find in this office.”
The paper relies on this without support.
According to patrilineal tradition in rural China, children, especially sons, should be raised by their biological fathers and carry on family lineage.
“According to this tradition, children, and especially sons, should be raised by their biological fathers and, in turn, carry on family lineage.”
The paper relies on this without support.
In divorce cases, legal workers typically charge their clients a fixed amount of fees in advance.
“In divorce cases, legal workers typically charge their clients a fixed amount of fees in advance.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Since the second term of Xiao Yang (2004-2008), Chinese courts have introduced a series of judicial interpretations to steer judges toward dispute settlements through court-based mediation.
“Since the second term of Xiao Yang (2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008), the then president of the Supreme People's Court, Chinese courts have introduced a series of judicial interpretations to steer judges toward dispute settlements through court-based mediation.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The Marriage Law stipulates that victims of domestic violence are entitled to damages at the time of divorce.
“The Marriage Law clearly stipulates that victims of domestic violence are entitled to damages at the time of divorce.”
The paper relies on this without support.
China still does not recognize marital rape in its national laws.
“To date, China still does not recognize marital rape in its national laws.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Neither the Marriage Law nor related judicial interpretations provide clear guidelines for assessing evidence related to domestic violence, evaluating victimization, or allocating damages.
“For example, neither the Marriage Law nor related judicial interpretations provide clear guidelines for assessing evidence related to domestic violence, evaluating victimization, or allocating damages.”
The paper relies on this without support.
No evidence indicates that female legal workers fare better than women lawyers relative to their male counterparts.
“So far, no evidence indicates that female legal workers fare better than women lawyers relative to their male counterparts.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Survey research conducted in Western countries and in China provides little information about gender differences in access to justice, because much of it has been collected at the household level.
“Currently, survey research conducted in Western countries and in China provides little information about gender differences in access to justice, because much of it has been collected at the household level.”
The paper relies on this without support.
In the context of divorce litigation, the only exception to the general rule that courts can skip rulings over matters not claimed is allocation of child custody.
“In the context of divorce litigation, the only exception to this general rule is allocation of child custody.”
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
Each contradiction between two passages listed here was confirmed by an independent check.
Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
In the paper
§ "What He Did Was Lawful": Divorce Litigation and Gender Inequality in China > WOMEN'S INTERACTIONS WITH THE CIVIL JUSTICE SYSTEM
“family disputes have become the leading cause for Chinese citizens to seek out legal assistance”
§ "What He Did Was Lawful": Divorce Litigation and Gender Inequality in China > DISCUSSION
“By the end of 2009, family disputes became the second largest category in which individual citizens use legal services for their grievances and claims (Chinese Yearbook of Lawyers 2009).”
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Background
Metadata
- Authors
- Li, K.
- Affiliations
- Indiana University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Li, Ke
- ORCID
- Li, Ke
- Venue
- Law & Policy
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2015-06-09
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 153-179
- ISSN
- 0265-8240 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9930
- OpenAlex
- W3125682056
- Semantic Scholar
- 2e119f5bfd22c339783607f13d7202f2e80f3fe6
- Cited by
- 37
- References
- 64
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 3
- FWCI
- 3.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Law & Policy (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (0960759)
- Social Science Research Council
- Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
- China Times Cultural Foundation
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Social Sciences › Law › Family and Matrimonial Law
- Social Sciences › Law › Discrimination and Equality Law
- Keywords
- divorce proceedings, gender inequality, women's rights, civil justice system, legal profession, marital rights, family law, dispute initiation
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