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Since the early 1990s, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-inlaw in rural China has undergone a significant change , expressed by the loss of mother-in-law' s authority and domination over daughter-in-law .This phenomenon indicates a reform of family resource distribution within the household , namely , the young generation gets upper hand in the labor market , and as a result , the daughter-in-law' s control over mother-in-law' s life resources, to a certain extent , threatens mother-in-law' s old age security . In a further analysis, it shows that the patriarchal kinship system places mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in contradictory positions for getting benefits :the son is the provider of his mother' s old age security ;in the meanwhile , he is also the key investor of his own son who is the provider of his wife' s security .That means, the more resources provided to the mother , the less investment would be in the daughter-in-law .This result reflects that while gender equality is improved in many other aspects, it is still patriarchal in character to a certain extent .

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