The Study On The International Participation Of All-China Women's Federation

Women issue is not only the cry for women's equal rights and status made by scholars and feminists, it is also related to social condition, economic development, even the stability of a country. As what Hillary Rodham Clinton said in her speech on the Fourth World Conference on Women, the development of women concerns their families'progress, and"when families flourish, communities and nations do as well". Therefore, it is necessary to pay lasting attention to women issue. Currently, the international situation is undergoing profound changes. Civil society is rising globally. Transnational social movements obtain wider living space and more opportunities to develop. Within the contexts mentioned above, various women organizations participate in the process of international politics. All-China Women's Federation also enhances internatiaonal exchanges, seeking to speak out for her own on international stage. This thesis'theme is"women's participation in international politics", which is a descriptive study. There are three purposes of the study: (1) to research into dynamics mechanism of women's international participation by analysing the characristics of their participaition behaviors; (2) to discuss how All-China Women's Federation to deal with the new development of women's movement and the new changes of the world; (3) to explore development strategies that women's federation should employ in the international exchanges.Essentially, participation is a kind of behavior that some agents in a weak position try to influnce the mighty ones in a certain field. In the international society, state actors are the leading powers, while non-state actors are in the weak position, which is the reason that non-state actors are the main agents in the international participation. Women groups are active to get involved in the international politics, which is affinitive with globlization, united nations and the development of women movements. Women groups are various in kind, however, they mostly focus on low politics and need external support. Compared with women groups in other countries, All-China Women's Federation prefers to act in an orderly manner, and in accordance with government's foreign policies. These characteristics are developed in an unique historical and institutional enviorenment. With positive outlooks, women federation's future thrusts should be effective participation and developmental participation.