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or raise the recruitment standards for women under any pretext. It cannot fire women or unilaterally annul their labor contracts on the pretext of marriage, pregnancy, maternity leave or baby nursing. It is not allowed to discriminate against women in terms of promotion, award of academic and technical titles, allotment of housing and enjoyment of welfare benefits, or to assign women to tasks that are not suitable for them. Women enjoy special protection during menstruation, pregnancy, child birth and baby nursing period. Fourthly, women enjoy equal property rights with men. The law stipulates that rural women enjoy the same rights as rural men in the allotment of responsibility farmland and grainration farmland and in the approval of housing sites. With regard to marriage and family property, women enjoy equal ownership and inheritance rights with men. Widows have the right to dispose of property they inherit, without interference from anyone. Fifthly, women enjoy equal rights with men relating to their persons. Women enjoy the right to life and health, freedom of the person, the right of portrait, reputation and other rights relating to the person。 and they enjoy the right of kinship, guardianship, fame and status as a producer. The law prohibits abandonment and drowning of female babies and other forms of infanticide and bans discrimination against and maltreatment of women who give birth to female babies and women who are sterile. It forbids tormenting women with superstitious and violent means and bans maltreatment or abandonment of aged women. It forbids the abduction and kidnapping of women as well as the sale and purchase of such women. It bans actions to anize, force, seduce, shelter or introduce women to engage in prostitution. Lastly, women enjoy equal rights with men in marriage and the family. The law states that women enjoy equal freedom in marriage and divorce, and the relations between husband and wife are equal. Women can use their own surnames and given names and participate in production and social activities. Women are subject to special protection with regard to divorce. While clearly delineating the various concrete rights and interests of women, China39。s legislation amplifies the responsibilities of state ans in protecting women and clarifies the special status and role of the women39。s federations and other women39。s anizations in lawsuits, thus establishing a prehensive legal mechanism for protecting women. Among the 54 articles of the Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Women, 75 percent list in detail the consequences and legal responsibilities for infringements, thus providing an operational legal basis for enforcement of the law. In sum, it is true that in China much has been done to emancipate women in the past half century, however, China is a developing country. Owing to the constraints of social development and the influence of old 英語 畢業(yè)論文 viiiconcepts, the condition of Chinese women is still not wholly satisfactory. There exist various difficulties and resistance which have prevented the full realization of equal rights to women with respect to their participation in political and government affairs, employment, access to education, as well as marriage and family. Instances of looking down upon and discrimination against women and even infringement of their rights still occur from time to time. Therefore, certain provisions on the legal rights of women and guarantee mechanisms need to be further improved. At the same time, the government should set up a central mechanism to examine implementation of government policies, expenditure proposals and legislation to ensure equality for both sexes. Many things remain to be done. B. Women’s Fighting Against Feudal Ideology and SelfCultivation Although in the latest several decades, Chinese women have made a great historic leap in the enhancement of women’s status. And we can say that women’s situation in present day is totally different from that of old China. However, Chinese women today still face discrimination。 they are usually treated unfairly in many aspects, and are denied their privilege, certain individuals. Because some immutable and strongly feudal beliefs still remain today, especially in some countryside districts. For example the male still enjoy the dominating status, and men virtually authorize and control women, embodying in social institutions of power, for instance, in the family, law, and government, and their legitimating ideologies. In the country, society is patriarchal. And under patriarchy, maleness is viewed as the norm and is the prevailing perspective, but female is considered to be outside the main stream of the life and society. Traditional feudal ideologies, such as, “husband sings and wife acpanies”, “the male is superior to the female”, “virtuous wife”, “three obedience conception: women obeyfirst, their fathers。 after marriage, their husbands。 during widowhood, their sons”, and so on, which are still prevailing in modern Chinese society. Take “Husband sings and wife acpanies” as an example, the expression means that a wife’s obedience to her husband is generally considered as an important requisite for a harmonious and happy family, under such an idea, a wife is not supposed to have her own independent will and opinions, but should unconditionally obey her husband. As a Chinese woman, no matter she is a daughter, a wife, or a mother。 she has to carry more unequal responsibility under the traditional gender norm. They have no choice but do all the caring work, such as bearing children, doing housework, which were thought to be women’s obligation. Although Chinese also women are an important part of the labor force, yet, they always have been cheap labor because of their low education