The Research On Protections For Rural Women’s Land Rights

It has been a common phenomenon that farmers come to city to hunt for a job,simultaneously with the accelerating pace of urbanization and the progressiverealization of agricultural modernization. As a result, rural women have beenbecoming the main force of agricultural production, which increasing theirdependence on the land. However, rural women’s land rights which includedistribution of contractual land, bonus of the contractual right of land to be ashareholder, compensation for expropriation of land, and distribution of house site,suffered serious violations. It affects the lives of rural women and hampersconstruction of rural social stability and development seriously. Because of variousreasons, rural women are not only difficult to have equal status with men, but alsohard to get due protection when rights are violated. Though our laws on rural women’sland rights are protected explicitly, there is somewhere imperfect and too general.Therefore it is significant to solve the problem urgently. According to the thought ofasking, analyzing and solving the problem, the author studied on protections for ruralwomen’s land rights and gave hers own opinions to hope to solve this problem. Thereare four parts in this article:The first part is the overview of rural women’s land rights. This part defined theconception of land rights and rural women’s land rights at first to explain theconstituent elements. Then it expounds the significant meaning of the protection ofrural women’s land right and proves the necessity of this issue.The second part is the specific phenomenon of violation of rural women’s land rights.This part explains the unmarried, married, divorced and widowed women’s specificviolation, which includes distribution of contractual land and house site and bonus ofthe contractual right of land to be a shareholder. According to above analysis, theauthor tries to find out the solution of this issue.The third part is the reasons of violation of rural women’s land rights. This partanalyzes the reasons of violation of rural women’s land rights in different aspectswhich includes the thought of "follow husband", the level of education, theparticipation of politics, villagers’ autonomy and the imperfectness of legal systemand tries to explain how it happened. What the author did above is to help to solve this problem and make the system more pointed.The fourth part is the actions of the protection of rural women’s land rights. This partgives specific advice on solution to the violation of rural women’s land rightsaccording to above analysis, which aims to change the current situation and achievegender equality and prosperity.