Rural Women Path Of Social Work Practice

With the society continuous developing and improving as a whole process, thewomen’s rights in rural areas has gotten a degree of protection. However, the ruralwomen’s developments still go with many obstacles, equity can not be fullyprotected. The phenomenon of damaging their rights and interests frequently takeplace, for example, poor access to education, neglected dignity and domesticviolence happening in the family, marginalized legal inheritance of property rightsand interests, weak awareness of political participation.These should be the rightsof rural women as the main body in rural areas, and also protected by law, but ithas become a victim of the powers and resources in competing in the traditionalculture. Actually rural women’s self-developing rights have been weakened andeven neglected. Their rights in practice have been repeatedly infringed. The ruralwomen become the so-called “black households in rights".Rural regulations and agreements and traditional concepts as therepresentatives are deep-seatedly hindering in the further development of ruralwomen, and the power of obstruction need engaging in the effective andsustainable action to break one by one. Rural regulations and agreements areformulated by whole inhabitants of village as the conduct rule, that are accordingwith the relevant laws，regulations and policies, mainly combining with villagepractice to discuss and finally requiring all the inhabitants to abide by.But inrecent years, rural regulations and agreements and traditional conceptsdisregarding the legitimate rights and interests of rural women continues toincrease, gradually appearing apparent drawback. Therefore, to assist advancedrural women activists recognize the current obstacles and carry outcapacity-building and relationship building long-term development plan, socialworkers motive their active participation to modify the action of the pacts, and inthis process focus on continually tapping potential to achieve the maintenance ofself-development.Based on this background, this paper starts from the advantages perspectiveand empowerment theory in social work, to find unreasonable infringement pactsin terms of rural women. The social workers assist to create a situation in whichsocial workers lead them to find their own strength and resources and identifythemselves to change the medium of unreasonable terms, influencing theallocation of resources to get fair treatment. In this process, social workers act asrole of mentors and contact ones, contacting the village committees, village heads,and representatives of rural women as well as county and township leaders,including the relevant field of experts, to start the amendment of the pacts. Theimportant thing is a building training in rural women’s capacity and relationshipwhile providing a stable social support, making ability and skills to be more fullycultivated and the relationship maintained. Ultimately rural women get morecontrol over the resources and means of their lives through their own strength.Through document analyzing and in-depth individual interviewing, the author help to find the unreasonable pacts, and explore the feasible ways to improve thesituation and the measures taken, standardizing regulations and agreements inrural areas, enhancing the awareness of leading cadres and grassroots andinnovating the system.