The Research On Women And Family Status With Gender Perspective

Women’s social status has been the subject of social concern. With the women’s liberation movement and long-term advocacy of gender equality, women’s status improved significantly in China. However, in the deep social cultural and social attitudes, gender inequality still exists. As a most important part of the social status, women’s marriage and family status is in the same risk of such difficulties.In current sociological research, people pay more attention to the research on sectors and the influences of basic objective variables such as income, occupation, age, educational level than the gender perspective. Therefore, it’s of great significance doing an empirical research with a gender perspective on the position of women’s marriage and family.Women’s family status means the prestige in the family and the power and control of family resources (material and human resources) of women, which reflects the extent of balance between women and men on the rights of in the family sharing and decision-making. It can be operated to three dimensions:the enjoyment of the family rights, the realization of the family power and family responsibilities and commitment.With the use of description analysis, mean, correlation analysis and regression analysis on the existing data, we know that social gender culture is the core of gender inequality, resulting in family status of women less than men; And that economic development is the power of changes in women’s marriage and family status.In order to fully enhance the status of women in marriage and family, it’s the most fundamental way to strengthen gender research, bring gender equality into public policy and promote the transformation of a gender perspective. At the same time, accelerate the development of productive forces and enhance the economic level of the overall and individual. Besides, continue to improve laws and regulations, and earnestly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of women. What is worth mentioning at last is the attention to women’s domestic labor value.