| The transfer of rural surplus labor force especially male labor changed rural politics,economic and society. Especially in the family, women play the important role. Along withthe change of the traditional division of family pattern, it brings further change in thestructure of family power. In order to fill the vacancy about left-behind women’s family status,this thesis studies the rural left-behind women’s family status.This thesis selects300left-behind women by the random sampling method from threevillages of J Township in Henan province. Through questionnaires and interviews to collectdata, then use the social statistical software SPSS and EXCEL to analyze the data. This articledescribes the current situation of left-behind women from the reproductive autonomy, familydecision-making, family control over the household division of labor and roles of satisfaction.Then analyses it in the perspective of social gender theory and explore the factors that affectthe family status. It can be concluded as: First, the family strategy that husband flow and wifeleft generates on the basis of unequal gender resources possession. It brings the left-behindwomen have more and more family resources, then increase their family status, so genderrelations in rural areas tend to equality.Second, from perspective of social gender, family status still exist inequality betweenthe genders. The family division of labor Patten is the male migrant workers but women stayat home. Look from the surface the division of labor provides opportunities for thedevelopment of women, but in essence it is the deprivation of female resources.Third, there are many factors which can affect the left-behind women family status; themain factors can be divided into three levels, namely the individual, family and society.Personal reasons mainly：The gender concepts of left-behind women mostly are traditionalgender concepts so they lack of independent decision-making and self-awarenessdevelopment, the relative scarcity of capital especially no independent income, so reduce the contribution rate for household, the weak cultural capital is bad for career choice andproviding intellectual support for family members, but relatives support networks affect theirright to speak; Family reasons are: the nuclear family which is the main type of familystructure reduce upward intergenerational relationships and increase its position, follow thehusband after marriage live way affect left-behind women to family control of physicalresources, but the relationship between the left-behind women with her husband tended toequal in favor of increase the decision-making right in household. The society reasons are:the differences between legal texts and legal practices in rural society restrict the legitimaterights and interests of rural women, low level of rural economic development and Irrationaleconomic structure affect women’s career choices and reduce its contribution rate in the homeeconomy, Traditional culture and modern culture together in the left-behind women’s familystatus, the results of both the game make the relationship between men and women towardthe equal direction.In order to further improve the left-behind women’s family status, promote thedevelopment of equality between men and women, the author try to put forward the followingcounter measures and suggestions: First, construct the advanced gender culture, build theculture field of gender equality. Second, increase input in rural areas, promote the second andthird industry development, and then provide the opportunity for rural women to participatethe social production. Third, perfect rural education training system, increase the left-behindwomen’s cultural capital, and improve the consciousness of social main body. Forth, perfectrural social security system and service; reduce the burden of left-behind women. Fifth,strengthen supervision over rural the propaganda of legal popularity and legal practice,protecting the rights and interests of rural women. |
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