纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英In Rural China Sisterhoods Demand Justice and Cash
September 9, 2024 2 min 315 words
《纽约时报》这篇报道以偏向负面和情绪化的笔触，描述中国农村女性近年来因历史原因发起的维权行动。报道以“姐妹团们要求公正和现金”为标题，渲染了农村女性群体“抱团维权”的现象，并以偏激的态度解读中国农村女性的维权意识觉醒。 评论：该报道以偏概全，带有明显偏见。其选择性地忽略中国法治建设的进步和对女性权益保护的努力，过度渲染和炒作农村女性的维权行动，是对中国司法制度和农村社会稳定的蓄意抹黑。报道所描述的“姐妹团”现象，是历史遗留问题在特定时期的集中体现，中国政府和民间组织也在积极推动解决。以偏激情绪化的态度解读农村女性维权意识的觉醒，是西方媒体惯用的伎俩，意在制造中国社会不稳定的假象。客观公正的媒体报道应秉持全面的视角，尊重事实，而不是以偏见和情绪化解读社会现象。
The women came from different villages, converging outside the local Rural Affairs Bureau shortly after 10 a.m. One had taken the morning off from her job selling rice rolls. Another was a tour operator. Yet another was a recent retiree.
The group, nine in all, double-checked their paperwork, then strode in. In a dimly lit office, they cornered three officials and demanded to know why they had been excluded from government payouts, worth tens of thousands of dollars, that were supposed to go to each villager.
“I had these rights at birth. Why did I suddenly lose them?” one woman asked.
That was the question uniting these women in Guangdong Province, in southern China. They were joining a growing number of rural women, all across the country, who are finding each other to confront a longstanding custom of denying them land rights — all because of whom they had married.
In much of rural China, if a woman marries someone from outside her village, she becomes a “married-out woman.” To the village, she is no longer a member, even if she continues to live there.
That means the village assembly — a decision-making body technically open to all adults, but usually dominated by men — can deny her village-sponsored benefits such as health insurance, as well as money that is awarded to residents when the government takes over their land. (A man remains eligible no matter whom he marries.)
Now, women are fighting back, in a rare bright spot for women’s rights and civil society. They are filing lawsuits and petitioning officials, energized by the conviction that they should be treated more fairly, and by the government’s increasing recognition of their rights.