• In the old days, women were subjugated, partly due to the freedom of a man to take a concubine and the low legal protection of women's rights in marriage. What sexual permissiveness there was existed mainly for the pleasure of the man. The 1950 marriage law, guaranteeing women's rights is a piece of legislation that the CCP is particularly proud of.
• In the 1950s & 60s, the CCP organised the training of "token" women in male dominated areas, such as flying aircraft and working on high tension power lines. The Cultural Revolution swept away the main organs of women's liberation, the Women's Federations. But during the 11 years of Wen Ge, women rose to a number of prominent positions through their political skills - and perhaps through the support of Jiang Qing, a feminist who wanted to be the first woman chairman of the CCP.
• The CCP restored the Women's Federations in 1973 and they became active again from 1977 onwards. They concentrated on subjects like birth control, hygiene and paediatrics. Chinese officials admit that women's liberation still has a long way to go, and that the CCP's role should be to promote and foster it. There were only 2 women in the 25 member Politburo in 1981, 14 out of 205 full members of the Central committee, and 37 out of 235 members of the Presidium of the National people's congress.
• As in all socialist countries it is a moot point in China whether the employment of women in low-paid industrial jobs is liberating or just a new form of subjugation. But there is also no question that women have greatly improved their social and economic position since 1949. Even though the party's policy is equal pay for equal work??? (to2ng go1ng to2ng cho2u), women still only earn on average 81.68% of their male counterparts. Men tend to get better paid jobs and most companies prefer male graduates.
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• Baby girls are not seen as an asset in China and government officials often flout the 1 child policy in rural areas if a couple have a girl they are often allowed to try again until they have a boy.
How has the issue of gender superiority evolved in China? ... In 1949, the Communist government took over China. One of the Communist party's principles was that of equality for women. This was a big change for the women of China. ... Therefore, the struggle for equality and the end to sex discrimination continues. ...
It may be a long time before total equality is achieved in genders across the world. Gender roles are cultural but gender itself is not. ... In other countries such as China women are not held with such a high respect at all; especially when you take into consideration all of the horror stories we all have heard about the population rationing (how having a girl was considered useless; drowning girl children so the family can have a boy to carry on the name). ... Strives toward equality have been made but only recently and hopefully more will be achieved. As you can see gender roles are v...
I defined my own definition of "Feminism" at the beginning of this Women Studies course as "Female, Women, Gender; the values of women have in the society; the roles women play in the society; the rights that women have in the society, ex. ... Although we are working very hard to accomplish "equality" between women and men, but in our society now, we still can see or hear, or maybe it is happening around us right now, women are observed as a sexual object by men, and many women have been sexual abused or beaten by men. ... In China, women are considered a lower class than men. ... I don't...
These groups include the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Guamanians, Philipinos, and Vietnamese. ... The Chinese also believe in the strength of a family, they value family and elders very much. ... The Chinese have a very intricate culture not living up to those stereotypes. ... Overall any culture is going to differ from another in their traditions and gender roles. ... Hopefully in the end they will all have equality between the two genders. ...
In the documents, women of different nations individually speak out on issues such as equality, social responsibility, and the traditional cultural views on women. ... The traditional cultural gender role of women was to stay home, except to visit relatives or attend religious festivals. ... Certain cultures align women to perform only in traditional gender defined roles as seen this example of women in Algerian Independence. ... Song compared the story of the female population of a village fighting off a small Japanese force with nothing more than farm implements to the great vigor and...
A combination of numerous experiments demonstrates that the gender differences in intelligence stem from social forces rather than genetic make-up; these social forces include gender roles, self-conception, outside influence, education, and personality. ... As previously stated, different types of intelligence are applied to one gender or the other. Michael Marland (1983) experimented with both genders to develop a hypothesis on multiple, gendered intelligence. ... Without parents help, gender roles will continue to force females to conform to societies labels (Bem 1993). Teachers also ...
Feminism, a set of movements and ideologies that define the equality of political, economic, cultural and social rights for women. ... Feminists aspirations had been expressed in societies back in Ancient China, the terms of "feminism", as a movement, had never been used until, around 1970. ... Mary Wollstonecraft encouraged the social and moral equality of different genders. ... The two most important topics of this feminist wave were the inequality of the gender. ... But this is not the way, the third movement wanted to go, so instead they fought for an equality of rights among eve...
Culture in Early China In the movie, Raising the Red Lantern, Chinese culture in the early twentieth century was portrayed very well. ... In America today, culture is both similar to and different than that of early-twentieth century China. ... America does, however, still rely heavily on the male gender. ... Why is that still the case in a nation that preaches equality to all and a united nation under God? ... Hopefully, one day America will be in the shape to truthfully proclaim equality to all, but as of now, it's just not the case. ...