A SURVEY AND INVESTIGATION OF THE SOCIAL LIVING STATUS OF FEMALE MIGRANT WORKERS IN CENTRAL CHINA
Caining Gu
Wuhan Foreign Languages School, 508387989@qq.com
Abstract
With China’s rapid economic growth and accelerating urbanization process, a large group of migrant workers leave the countryside and flock into cities to work and secure a better life for their families. Among this national rise of tide work, the female migrant workers constitute more than 40% flowing workforce in cities. As farmers, workers, and the women, the female migrant workers had to deal with their multiple identities, meanwhile, they have made important contributions to China’s economic and social development. However, they remain the vulnerable group who need much more attention. In reality, many female migrant workers suffer the limitation of city Hukou household-registration and endure workplace discrimination, and they can hardly safeguard their legal rights due to the lack of a sound social security mechanism. To tackle the associated social issues, we took an investigation and conducted the survey for the current living situations of female migrant workers through questionnaire and case study. Through the analysis of the major problems and urgent needs, we then proposed the ways of building a supporting system for female migrant workers involving government and society help from the perspectives of system construction, legal protection, skill training and identical treatment, so as to build up a comprehensive and multilateral-participation social security framework for female migrant workers.
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