Abstract:
The fact has long been neglected in this historical period of social transformation in contemporary China that inequality in sex interests and negligence of female right exist in the process of distributing household resources in western China. Hence a lateralization of rural females in distribution of household resources occurs. As a profound and structural social problem, it is a necessary option and adapting strategy of rural families in western China in face of separation of social structure and re-grouping of interest groups. What plays an important controlling role is such factors as the patriarchal household structure, traditional work distribution between sexes, inequality in social sex relationship, and loss of fairness in distribution of social resources.
