Women in China

Traditions affects a lot of women and this appears in China and according to this, one woman kills herself every four minutes. Chinas considered as the only country in the world which has more women suicides more than men and this is not an expectation it’s a fact according to the World Health Organization statistics. Suicide problem has a high rate is rural areas more than in the cities and the reason for this high rate in the rural regions is related to the availability of poisons in the agricultural areas. The head of the Suicide Prevention Project at the Beijing Cultural Development Center for Rural Women said that the particular reason for rural women’s suicide is the fighting between the husband and the wife and the bad relationship between them, which is ended by the wife drinking some poison. There is a famous saying among men; they consider the woman as an animal and they say" marrying a woman is like buying a horse; I can ride you and beat you whenever I like". Of course women will kill themselves and some times they attempt suicide as a way of asking for better treatment from their husbands; they want them to treat them as human beings. Business deals are an important point which it's related to the marriage. Marrying is the biggest issue where traditional attitudes still dominate. There are many marriages considered and operated as business deals by buying the bride and becoming a member of the groom's family. Xu Rong's organization attempts to prevent suicide by providing women with village based supporting groups to discuss their feelings and emotions. Also, this organization has been succesful and there are other successes including a school where young rural women are taught the skills to build lives for themselves. There are many courses such as, cooking, computing and hairdressing as well as classes on marriage laws. According to the city living, the atmosphere of the city life allows the girls to work and to control their lives and have a career, but this does not happen in the villages because they see that it’s a risk and because there are many women who have been sexually abused by their bosses.



The main point:

We see how the Chinese women are suffering in the rural areas because of their husbands and because of the bad treatment from their husbands, so many women attempt to commit suicide.



The opinion:

In my opinion, the government should punish any man who treats any woman in a bad way because the woman is a human being created by God to be beside the man.