Lei Yang1,*, Zhipeng Sun2,3
International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.25, No.1, pp. 31-43, 2023, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2022.021375
Abstract Little is known about the association between structural gender inequality and health in patriarchal China. This
study employed a sample from the Chinese Women’s Social Status, consisting of 26,139 participants aged 18 and
70 years (13,494 women and 12,645 men). Structural gender inequality was assessed at the macro-, meso-, and
micro-levels. Mental health was measured by the summed scores of eight questions on depressive symptoms.
Multilevel linear regression was applied for analysis. Results showed that total sex ratio at birth was associated
with poorer mental health among women and men but sex ratio at birth of the second-born child predicted… More >
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