Research On Political Participation Of Left-behind Women In Rural Areas Of Shandong Province

China is a big agriculture country with centuries-old agriculture civilization,with a fundamental reality of our country that having a large rural population.According to the result of the 6th national population census in 2010,rural population takes 50.32% of the whole population throughout the country,which is declined comparing with the last research.With the fast development of China's industrialization,urbanization,and modernization,the phenomenon that a stream of continuous population mobility is started to appear,namely ‘peasant worker rush'.This population mobility involves wide China's rural areas,and large quantities of adult male labor force in rural areas flood into cities for employment opportunities.Because of the limitation of the present urban-rural dual system in China and the limitation of household economy of migrant labors,their parents,wife and children stay at home,so that a large group of people left-behind appears in China's rural areas.However,according to the statistics of Ministry of Civil Affairs,the total number of left-behind people is over 150 million in2015.Hereinto,the number of left-behind children is more than 60 million,the number of left-behind elderly is about 50 million,and the number of left-behind women is over47 million.Most of left-behind women are in golden age,while by reason of gender,left-behind women are responsible for giving birth to babies and taking care of the elderly and children at the same time.Nowadays,lots of male labor force are flowing out,so left-behind women in China's rural areas become main force of economic development and social construction in China's rural areas.They play an important role in the construction of socialism new countryside,meanwhile,they serve as the connection between migrant population and villages,which is a pass for interest demand.Left-behind women's dependence on their husband has been limited to some extent because of their husband going out.Therefore,the social roles of left-behind women are changed from ‘homemaking dominant' to ‘outer home and homemaking dominant simultaneously',which makes it possible for left-behind women to participate in politics.At the same time,their vigor is limited because they have to give consideration to family and production;on the other hand,it is not optimistic for the environment of their participation in politics because of the limitation of their ideology and educational level.Under the background of population mobility,the condition of left-behind women participating in politics has direct influence to the development of rural democracy,and further influences the development course of democracy at the local level.Based on the significance of left-behind women political participation,this thesis selects three villages of Yishui County in Linyi city of Shandong province,village A,village B,village C respectively as research subjects.Theories and methods of politics are used:investigate left-behind women in three villages through methods of questionnaire survey and interview;realize the analysis of their sense of political participation and conditions of participative behaviors through the real conditions of left-behind women participating in democratic election,democratic decision-making,democratic management and democratic supervision in villages;analyze the causes from two aspects of subjectivity and objectivity,and propose corresponding coping strategies.On this account,improve political participation level of left-behind women to promote the development of democracy at the local level.