Study Of Rural Left-behind Women's Issues

The women left in rural areas while their husbands have gone out for jobs in city areas are a new group that arises along with population shift since reforming and opening in China. The rural women left in rural areas assume the responsibilities of the productive labour and the upbringing and support of a family alone that should be undertaken by the couple. The group of women are called remaining wives who are not a completely homogeneous group. They can be divided into categories according to the difference of productive labour, self-quality, and the relationship of the family and society. The remaining wives are a unique group at the background of Chinese characteristic industrialization and urbanization.The remaining wives take charge of the productive labour, parenting and supporting the old since the husbands have gone out for a job in cities. Playing multi-roles aggravates the remaining wives' burden, however, which has not brought more chance of development. the right position of remaining wives in rural family dependent on the capacity of earning .human capital and culture and value view, not the responsibilities assumed by remaining wives. and The concealment of housework inundates the contributions of the remaining wives for survival and development of the family, and leads to the gender inequality of decision-making; the heavy housework and burden of labour shorten their leisure time, and cause to the further inequality of two sex and refraining the development of rural remaining wives; the retaining wives improve the participation in public life, however, women's vulnerable position have not fundamental changed in public life; And their marriage is almost tranquillisation though the couple is separation. But compare to other peasant, their marriage implicates more instable factor; the remaining wives have endured more tremendous mental pressure than certain mental pleasure and fulfil they gain when their husband apart from themselves.It is the fundamental way to solve the problem of the remaining wives reforming duality household register system in China society, and implementing the integration of urban and rural economy development. But in the forecast historical period the group of remaining wives will be exist in Chinese rural areas due to inertia of system, special national conditions and gender division of labour. Before the fundamental transformations of condition of productive force in rural areas, rural-urban dichotomy structure and gender culture, The feasible ideas and measures in recent stage for solve the problem of rural remaining wives are to enhance the condition of productive labour and living, to improve their quality and ability, and to create more developed chance and condition for them in the new countryside constructions by social policy and ways, in order to promote the rural areas harmonious development.