In recent years, with the continuous development of rural areas, especially after the improvement of human settlements, road construction, and access to tap water and natural gas, the living conditions in rural areas have become better and better. Coupled with the advantages of fresh air and leisurely pace of life, as well as the rights and interests of homesteads and contracted land, the gold content of rural hukou has continued to increase.
Homesteads and contracted land are the exclusive land rights and interests of farmers, and as long as they are rural households, they should have their own land rights and interests. Rural households should also enjoy the rights and interests of village collective members, including village collective dividends, compensation for land requisition and relocation in the village, and so on.
However, in the past, there was a category of rural people whose rights and interests were often ignored, and although their hukou was still in the countryside, they could not be properly protected whether it was land rights or other rights and interests, and this kind of people were rural married women.
Rural women who marry outside the country generally believe that since they get married, they are no longer a member of their mother's family when they move to their husband's house. Some of them have not even moved their hukou, and their hukou is still in their parents' home, so they are regarded as non-members of the village collective. In this way, the original rights and interests in his mother's village will not be enjoyed.
After marrying into the in-law's family, if you don't encounter a land division, you don't have your own contracted land, and you don't have your own homestead. This can easily lead to the phenomenon of "empty at both ends", that is, although it is a rural hukou, it does not have its own land and other rights and interests on either side.
In recent years, it has been common to see rural women who have lost their land rights as a result of marriage. In a rural village in Henan, although a woman is married, because her husband is a son-in-law, her household registration has been left in her parents' house, and the family also lives in the original village. But when the village was requisitioned, they did not give their family of three land compensation, because they were already married.
Many rural women have encountered similar situations, some of them have no land at either end of their son-in-law's family, some have nothing in their mother's village after divorce, and some are even older and unmarried, and they are treated differently in their own village. All these situations are violations of the legitimate rights and interests of rural women.
Although it is said that "men and women are equal", many villages exclude the legitimate rights and interests of rural women on the grounds of customs, which has led to constant disputes among some rural women in matters related to rural collective identity recognition, land contract management, compensation for land requisition or expropriation, and the use of homestead land.
In order to fully protect the rights and interests of rural women, especially land rights and interests, the relevant departments have continuously improved the protection of rural women's rights and interests in recent years. Recently, another new regulation is about to be promulgated, that is, the draft law on the organization of the rural collective economy, which has been submitted for deliberation.
The draft further safeguards the legitimate rights and interests of rural collective economic organizations and their members, and in particular, provides a clear response to the issue of the rights and interests of "women married outside the country", which has attracted much attention.
The draft law further clarifies that rural women have the same rights and interests as men, and that women may not infringe upon the rights and interests of women in rural collective economic organizations on the grounds that they are unmarried, married, divorced, widowed, or have no male household.
After the promulgation of the new law, the rights and interests of rural women who marry outside the country will be clearly protected. As for the determination of the membership of a village collective for a woman who marries outside, it cannot be simply based on whether or not she is married, but must be comprehensively determined in combination with household registration, land contract management rights, rights and obligations, and so on.
It is believed that after the new regulations come into effect, the problem of "empty heads" of rural women who marry outside will be solved, and the behavior of arbitrarily infringing on the rights and interests of women who marry outside will also be effectively curbed.