reality. The land reform, which was intended to create a more balanced

economic force in marriage, was the beginning of governmental efforts to

pacify women, with no real social effect. Communist China needed to address the "woman question". Since women wanted more equality, and equality is doled out from the hands of those in power,capitalism was examined. The economic issues of repressed Chinese women

were focused on the Land Act and the Marriage Act of 1950. The Land reform

succeeded in eliminating the extended family's material basis and hence,

its potential for posing as a political threat to the regime. Small-plots

were redistributed to each family member regardless of age or sex; and land

reform provisions stipulated that property would be equally divided in the

case of divorce. Nonetheless, their husbands effectively controlled land

allotted to women. Patriarchal familial relationships in the Confucian

The Marriage Law of 1950 legalized marriage, denounced patriarchal

authority in the household and granted both sexes equa

Due to the ineffectiveness of the law, compliance became a problem,

resistance of rural women cadres to housework:

especially in the rural areas. Women were looked to for the solution to

the neo-Malthusian observation that the economic gains from reform were

natural population growth rate of 1.26 percent, much less provide a base

Moreover, the offending couple has to bear all expenses for medical care

girls were kept away from school and provided cheap domestic labor instead.

looked at as worthless, since boys were highly valued in single family

The self-esteem of Chinese women and girls was all but crushed with being

and priority in admission to nurseries, schools and hospitals. Parents

issue. Materialistic approaches could not shadow the issue of the view in

promotion for four years, demotion, or reduction in wages (Anders,52).

established by the CCP to mobilize women for economic development and

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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)