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r fathers; after marriage, their husbands; during widowhood, their sons”, and so on, which are still prevailing in modern Chinese society. Take “Husband sings and wife accompanies” as an example, the expression means that a wife’s obedience to her husband is generally considered as an important requisite for a harmonious and happy family, under such an idea, a wife is not supposed to have her own independent will and opinions, but should unconditionally obey her husband. As a Chinese woman, no matter she is a daughter, a wife, or a mother; she has to carry more unequal responsibility under the traditional gender norm. They have no choice but do all the caring work, such as bearing children, doing housework, which were thought to be women’s obligation. Although Chinese also women are an important part of the labor force, yet, they always have been cheap labor because of their low education, few choices of jobs, and their heavy load of housework. Also, they are under they pressure of traditional idea that “men are mainly responsible in external affairs and women are mainly responsible for internal affairs”. This is a popular traditional idea remaining in modern society, which means that men have the privilege to work outside the home, and men are thought to work outside the home and women should just stay at home. So many men view women working outside the home as against natural law and therefore women should return to their family to attend to household affairs and raise their children. In some poor districts, even if they work, their pay is low and working conditions are poor, and their income is lower than they should obtain. Although the feudal conceptions of China have changed much, the life experiences of Chinese women keep influenced by their traditional ethnic or gender norm. Therefore, women’s emancipation emphasizes on women’s self-awakeness and their participation in enhancing movement for the women’s status. First, women should know clearly that the ideology “man is noble and woman is humble” is deeply rooted in women’s economic dependence. Thus, the enhancement of women’s own economic situation will certainly lead to the improvement of women’s status. Second, on today’s IT society, the level of education and knowledge play the most important role, and if women want to gain equal opportunities and fair chance with men in society, they must receive a higher education and enlarge their knowledge scope, enrich their economic, political and worldwide affair views. In sum, to enhance women’s status, Chinese women have plunged into an undaunted and historic struggle. The key to their emancipation is to change their values, and not to surrender to traditional feudal ideology, and to eradicate all backward ideas of discriminating against and looking down on women. At the same time, women must set up the idea of self-cultivation, including self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-reliance. All in all, women need to earn their own dignity, respect their own person-hood, and oppose actions that demean themselves. Women should believe in their own power, establish a firm faith and reject underestimation of their abilities; they must pursue their cultivation of an independent attitude, fulfill their own potential through social practice, and give up the ideology of dependence and weakness . Conclusion Women’s status has been being a hot topic, and people are more and more care about it. Although with the development of the soc