Study On Status Quo, Problems And Countermeasures Of Women’s Political Participation In China

This study starts at understanding the reasons of low women’s political participation rate since the1980s in the context of discourse of "gender equality", which has been established for60years in the socialist Chinese mainland.After reviewing the Chinese and English literatures on women’s political participation, paper uses women’s liberation theory of Marxism and feminism theory to study women’s political participation’development process, problems and the reasons in China. And then paper improves propose the strategy to solve the problems of women’s political participation in China. The course of women’s political participation in our country has gone through five stages:a comprehensive start, tortuous development, suffered a setback, the gradual recovery and healthy development, each stage of women’s political participation is closely linked with national policy.The low rate of women in politics is the main problem of women’s political participation, specifically, the patriarchal feudal ideology, the political participation of the unspoken rules and discipline from the women’s bodies. The main reasons of these problems are: lack of a theoretical system of women’s political participation; the National Women Federation is difficult to truly play a role; the quality of women with low misidentification and difficulties of women’s collective resistance. In order to solve the above problems, this study put forward a proposal to improve the system, laws and policies to improve women’s political participation rate of women in politics. The conclusions of this study:Since the founding of China, even though the female leaders had obtained high position in political hierarchy, they still experienced the discrimination and exclusion in political arena. They found it very difficult to actualize the ideal of political participation for women and fulfill their political responsibility. In this difficult situation, there were no collective actions or movements against the exclusion of women’s political right. However, the National Women Federation and female leaders through "rightful resistance" and "everyday forms of resistance" in defending their political right, In the process, we can discover that they are active agents rather than the passive dominated objects.