婚姻家庭问题，是关系到社会生活和社会生产的重大问题，女性是婚姻家庭中十分重要甚至必不可少的组成部分。我国传统文化中歧视妇女、漠视妇女利益的痕迹浓重。为深入理解现代妇女权益保障工作的意义，本文作者通过历史分析法、比较研究法、法社会学的研究方法等，深入研究并分析中国古代婚姻中的妇女法律地位。论文分为五个部分。引言介绍了古代婚姻的目的及中国古代调整婚姻家庭关系的主要依据。正文部分首先通过对中国古代婚姻成立的实质要件和形式要件的研究，分析古代婚姻成立时妇女的法律地位。然后针对古代婚姻关系存续期间妇女丧失的各种权益，分析妇女在此期间的法律地位。最后在研究了古代离婚各种条件的基础上分析古代妇女在离婚时的法律地位。结语则指出中国古代“男尊女卑”的观念使妇女沦为封建式婚嫁观念的祭品，说明了在现代社会保护妇女法律地位的重要性。

Matrimony plays an essential role in social life and production. Women are indispensable part of marriages. Chinese traditional culture tends to discriminate against women and is indifferent to women’s interests. By utilizing various research methods such as historical analysis, comparative study and social science research methods, this thesis studies and analyzes the role of women in marriages in ancient China, in order to get a deep understanding of the importance of the work dedicated to guarantee women’s rights. This thesis consists of five sections. The introduction introduces the purpose of marriages in ancient times as well as the main reasons for marriage relationship adjustment in ancient China. In the main body, by studying the substantial conditions for the forming of ancient marriages, the loss of women’s interests in the surviving period of ancient marriage relationship and the conditions for divorce in ancient times, the author analyzes women’s legal status in ancient China. The concluding section suggests that the idea male is superior to female in ancient China turns women into the sacrifice of feudal marriage concept, which indicates the importance of guaranteeing women’s legal status in modern society.