Studies on the Left-behind Female in Rural Areas:Review and Prospects

Those left-behind females are the disadvantaged groups of society as a result of migration of male laborers from countryside to urban. This paper reviews the whole history of the studies on left-behind females in rural areas in the following aspects,such as the reasons why females are left behind,lives of those left-behind females,their marriage and families,impacts the state of being left behind has on the development of left-behind females,influences those left-behind females have on the advancement of the society,and the network of societal support of those left-behind females. Based on the problems of the past studies on the said topic,this paper puts forward feasible suggestions that some new items are listed to be analyzed and some methodologies shall be applied in the future.