Investigation on Family Status of Women in Poor Rural Areas——With Tongwei County in Dingxi of Gansu as an Example

Women's family status is defined as women's right in self-government, domination and decision-making in this paper.Additionally, it also takes account of other aspects, such as styles of handling family conflict, domestic work division and women's self-perception. According to the questionnaire data, women's family status in poor rural areas is far below the national average level. It is found that families are absolutely husband-dominated, and the sex differences in domestic work division are quite obvious. Moreover, it is quite common that the husband mainly deals with social affairs and the wife mainly deals with domestic affairs. All of these are resulted from both the internal factors of women themselves, and external factors of families and the society.Aiming at this situation, the paper puts forward the corresponding countermeasures and suggestions.