Do women have equal status to men in China? In India, (in rural India) women are not treated equally to men. They are expected to be slaves, and nobody cares if a man does something really bad, but even if a woman makes a small mistake, she will lose her reputation completely. There is a lot of domestic violence and suffering within families. Does this kind of thing happen in China too? In Australia, women and men have equal rights. The society's rules are the same for men and women. I think this is a good thing.