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Equality of Opportunity in Education and Training - Law on the Protection of Rights and Interests of Women - China Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Rights and Interests of Women of 3 April 1992 This Law contains seven substantive chapters: General Principles, Political Rights, Cultural and Educational Rights and Interests, Right to Work, Property Rights, Rights of the Person, and Marriage and Family Rights. Chapter on Education The State must ensure that women enjoy the same rights as men to education (article 14). Treatment should be equal when it comes to starting school, progressing from a lower-level school to a higher one, assigning jobs on graduation, awarding academic degrees and selecting people for overseas study (article 15). Parents and other guardians must ensure that female children or juveniles receive compulsory education, and government, society and schools should take effective steps to make the parents or guardians comply (article 17). Likewise, all levels of people’s government should take steps to organise women to undergo vocational education and skills training (article 19). State organs, social organisations, enterprises and institutions should ensure that women enjoy the same rights as men when engaging in scientific, technological, literary, artistic and other cultural activities (article 20). |
