The Characteristic Of Human Capital And Social Capital Of Left-behind Women Of Dongxiang Minority And Its Impact On These Women’s Participation In Farmer Cooperative Organization

With the development of urbanization, lots of young rural males begin to go out for work, the problem about Village hollow and feminization of agriculture in China has become one of the most serious challenges. In recent years, the number of Dongxiang young rural migrant worker who located in remote rural of northwest minority areas continues to increase. And the issue of left-behind women is becoming more and more serious and its salvation is imminent.This article reviews the theory of left-behind women, human capital and social capital and its relation with farmer cooperative organization, it also analyzes the living difficulty of left-behind women, their participation in cooperatives and the influential factors of the participation in cooperative organization. This article analyzes the characteristic of left-behind women in the perspective of human capital and social capital, studies the relation between the two types of capital and farmers’ participation in cooperation. It tries to find out the strengths and weaknesses when left-behind women participate in cooperation organizations and to explore suitable measures for these women. This paper holds that we can establish some kinds of small, elementary co-operatives for left-behind women. Such platform could give priority to cultivating social capital and helping them obtain experience and accumulating human capital. According to the characteristics of the human capital and social capital can be considered interchangeable. We hope that the two types of capital can reach a virturous circle eventually. The innovation of this paper mainly has two points:one is that this paper combines the human capital and social capital to analyze its impact on left-behind women in cooperatives; the other one is that it may enrich the study on the left-behind women in ethnic minority areas of China, it puts forward some ways to solve the extant questions such as elementary cooperatives could be established, and we may give priority to foster social capital and so on.This paper includes the following seven parts:the first part mainly introduces the background, research significance, research ideas and methods. The second part reviews the theory of left-behind women, human capital, social capital and the related theoretical research of the cooperative relations with the peasants. The third part gives some descriptions about production and living difficulties of left-behind women, their participation in cooperation as well as the influencing factors involved in the cooperation. The fourth part discusses the human capital and social capital characteristic of left-behind women of Dongxiang Minority.The fifth part analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of left-behind women’s participation in cooperation in the perspective of human capital and social capital. The sixth part put forward some proposals about how to accumulate human capital and social capita of left-behind women and promote their participation in cooperation organization, and offer the corresponding policy recommendations in the end. The seventh part summarizes the main conclusion of this article, and points out the shortcomings of the paper and the places that need further research.