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In Changfeng, women take a step forward

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    In Changfeng, women take a step forward

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    In May of this year, there was a heated discussion on the Internet about the right to name names.  Some people discovered that as early as 2014, Changfeng, a small county in Anhui, had already undergone a "surname revolution" - families whose children took their mother's surname would receive a cash reward of 1,000 yuan.  This seems advanced and strange in the current context.  Therefore, "People" went to Changfeng to observe the outcome and legacy of this policy.

    But after arriving in Changfeng, we soon realized that what happened here was much more than that.  A broad and rich gender equality experiment lasted for 7 years in this county.  It is relatively pure, does not set KPI, is not linked to political achievements, and only pursues the innovation of people's concepts and the emancipation of their minds.

    It is not any distant doctrine, not a slogan, but a real space opened up in strawberry fields and rice fields, allowing women to live more freely on their own land.  It is also a small spark, leaving some echoes, so that later people need not be surprised, those brave people have already done those things that seem extraordinary now¡ª¡ª

    ?Three Tears of UN Officials

    ? One thousand kilometers away from Beijing, in central Anhui, the summer landscape of Changfeng County is no different from other counties.  It was the time when the crops were changing seasons, and the sun was bright and hot. Along the gently rolling hills, the fields were full of farmers harvesting wheat.  In the evening, the country news was played on the loudspeaker, and the farmers bowed their waists and lighted the seedlings into the fields one by one.  The car drove on the village road, passing the strawberry sheds that had just been vacated, and the honeydew melon sheds in season. The water area was wide and the fir trees were tall.  It's a different look at night, there are square dancers everywhere.  A man was fishing in the lake in the park. The huge eel was struggling in the bucket, and the water splashed away. Many people gathered around to watch.

    But if you walk around again, you will find something unique¡ªin the Shuihu Park in the county seat, the most conspicuous statue is a grandfather holding his granddaughter, and the sign underneath is engraved: "Caring for girls, happy girls are held high by grandpa  shoulder".  A huge love gate was erected nearby to express "free love".  Walking into the roadside public toilets, the ratio is scientific, and the number of squats in the women's toilets is half that of the men's toilets.  Female city management officers can be seen at work on the street, while male nurses are seen in hospital wards.

    In a village called Innovation Community, Lu Ruiyun, the women's director, took me to see a two-story building that had just been painted.  This building is even newer than the village committee. It is an independent discussion space for female villagers, called "Women's Weijia".  Eleven members are selected through election.  Once a month, they finished their farm work, rode their bicycles across country roads, held meetings here, learned the "Anti-Domestic Violence Law" and "Marriage Law", fought for the rights and interests of women in the village, and fought for major issues such as roads, water and electricity.  Comments.  This kind of life has existed here for many years.

    At the end of June 2013, which was also the season, the wheat waves rolled in the village, and some changes took place.

    On this day, the innovation community will hold a villagers' congress to revise the village rules and regulations, which is the basis for villagers' democratic consultation and self-government.  Of the 111 representatives from the whole village, 105 came, some of whom came back from the city.  The small village committee meeting room was full.

    There are a total of 31 detailed rules, each of which must be voted on by a show of hands. If more than half of them are passed, they will be crossed out if they do not exceed half.  The front is relatively smooth.  But when it comes to Article 15, it gets stuck¡ªthe content of this article is: Encourage women to participate in politics.  Among the villagers' representatives, the proportion of female representatives should reach 40%.

    Before this revision, the actual proportion of female representatives in the village was 35%.  In the draft of the village rules and regulations, 30% is planned.  In the stage of soliciting opinions, it was raised to 40%.

    But at the scene, a female representative stood up and asked: "Why 40%? Why not 50%? Since gender equality is advocated, male and female representatives should be equal, half to half."

    This is not an isolated voice. She has the solidarity of all women, but it also splits men and women into two completely different camps-first vote by 50%, all men disagree, they are silent, no one raises their hands.  Another 40% vote, all women disagree.

    The two sides refused to give in to each other, and the stalemate lasted for several minutes. In the end, the township officials present came out to mediate, and the two sides reached a compromise: the proportion of female representatives among the villagers' representatives should not be lower than 45%.

    This is a temporary, sudden conflict.  After the vote, a woman with short hair asked to speak.  She stood in front of the stage, her voice choked up, and she was interrupted three times by her own tears:

    "I have been advocating gender equality for decades, and I have been to many places. When asked why women do not stand up to claim their rights, everyone said that they have been used to it for thousands of years. Today in Changfeng, I saw women stand up  Standing up for my rights, and holding my ground, gives me hope for years of gender equality advocacy.¡±

    ?She is Wen Hua, a program officer from the United Nations Population Fund, and an anthropologistThe results were promoted in other places in Anhui, but it happened to coincide with the reform of national institutions, and the merger of the family planning system and the health system.  In the heavy public health management, balancing the sex ratio at birth is no longer the most important task.  In addition, the second child was released in 2015, and the sex ratio at birth is not as severe as before.  This promotion will no longer continue.

    There are still some more in-depth work, because the end of the project and Gong Cunbing's resignation, did not continue.  For example, gender role positioning within the family.  When working on the Seventh Cycle project, Gong Cunbing realized that the family is the basic cell of society, and that gender equality must be returned to the family in the end.  In the eighth cycle project, Changfeng continued some family and community activities, but it seemed not as vigorous as in the seventh cycle.

    Especially in rural areas, the family structure is still "the male dominates the outside, and the woman dominates the inside", but sometimes it is changed into "men and women jointly dominate the outside, and the woman dominates the inside". This is a seemingly gentle but cruel nature.  equality.  He believes that some experiments can be done within the family. It is not necessarily required that the male or female lead the outside. The social roles of men and women can also be exchanged, or the men and women can complete the same social role together. The so-called "earn money together and spend together".  .

    Both Wenhua and Gong Cunbing mentioned their regrets to "People". In the end, the most difficult thing about this type of pilot project is-sustainability.  "To be honest, when we were working on the project with great vigor and vigor, we felt that we would make things very big, but it became very difficult to advance the project later." They all called for top-level design, so that the lights that were lit in Changfeng could be turned on.  , to illuminate more places, and to fix it through the system.

    But they also believe that, in this county at least, the experiment has left a splendid legacy.  Village regulations and civil agreements are not distant texts, but laws posted on the walls of every household.  It anchors the political and economic rights of rural women.  More importantly, the gender perspective it brings, its enlightenment and awakening, penetrates into every decision-making of the grassroots government, and makes the concept of gender equality deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

    On the night of May, I asked Gong Cunbing, recalling those five years, what was the first image that popped up in his mind?

    He said it was the faces of some girls.  Those talented girls from Changfeng one-woman families who performed at the summer party, those mothers who asked their children to take their surnames, those female village representatives who stood up for equal suffrage, and the one who insisted on giving her father the crown.  The girl in the coffin, "This breaks our thousands of years of tradition, how brave it is, and it is very touching."

    They made him understand a truth, "All women hate this kind of inequality in their bones, and they have the will to fight for equality. This kind of will is latent, strong, and can be aroused, and it will be very powerful when aroused. It is also this kind of  Power is pushing gender equality forward in society. Like a spark, we must encourage everyone to keep moving forward and fight for it.¡±

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