Measures for the Implementation of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Women’s Rights and Interests.

The aim of these Measures is to protect the legitimate rights and interests of women and promote equality between men and women. The Measures consist of 9 Chapters: I. General Provisions; II. Political Rights; III; Rights and Interests Relating to Culture and Education; IV. Rights and Interests Relating to Work and Social Security; V. Rights and Interests Relating to Property; VI. Rights Relating to the Person; VII. Rights and Interests Relating to Marriage and Family; VIII. Legal Responsibility; IX. Supplementary Provisions.
Among the members of the Villagers' Committees, there should be female members; for Villager Representatives Assembly, the proportion of female representatives shall be not less than one third of the total number of delegates. Villagers' Committees or Villager Representatives Assembly shall, when discussing and deciding matters concerning women's rights and interests, seek the opinions of women's organizations at the same level. When discussing matters such as determining land rights and interests, women shall enjoy equal rights with men in contracted management of land, distribution of the earnings of the collective economic organizations, use of the compensations for expropriated or requisitioned land and use of housing sites in rural areas. No one shall infringe upon women’s rights and interests in rural collective economic organizations on the pretext of their being single, married, divorced and widowed.