Gender Inequality In China

May fourth Feminism movement was the first feminist movement in china. This movement constituted of mostly males who were activists and reformers that were enthused with the idea of women liberation. They wanted to bring change to Chinese society and make China a stronger nation. Hence, they concluded that the source of China’s weakness and problems lie in the Chinese family structure. These women were illiterate and had bound feet which prevented them from reproducing or even raise their family, .

In addition, she would never earn acceptance and respect from the rest of the society again. It wasn’t before the second half of the century that things changed. In 1860s women started to play a bigger and more important role in the fight for human right to vote and improved and improved wages and working conditions. In 1869 the women had to work and pay taxes to be able to vote. In 1887 women were finally given the rights to own property.

When Emily was young, her mother was forced to work hard to support the family and she was sent to her grandparents’ home. It was two years old when Emily was taken back to home again. Without her mother’s accompanying and love, Emily didn’t know how to express her feelings. We could discover this from following passage that Emily unrequited love with a boy and she stole money to buy candies for him in order to show her love. She was not good at speaking.

Role of Women in Ancient Empires Throughout the modern world, we mention the concept of equality between men and women and try to equalize their positions in society. It is illogical for women to ask and try to prove that they are equal with men because equality is something that are already given to humanity, but contradicting the role of women by men is what created the gap between them. By looking at history, we can say that accomplishing that goal of making their position equal is not easy.

Cultural differences are prevalent in both of Amy Tan’s novels, The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God’s Wife. The mother’s face gender inequality based upon living in a patriarchal society in China, where they are oppressed with silence by their dominating husbands. Nevertheless, their daughters live in American, where they have an opportunity of freedom, have not faced constrainment in their lifestyles as their mother’s have. The independent girls have their own authority and mindset, being raised in western societies. Therefore, it is quite difficult for the mother’s and daughter’s to have a sense mutual understanding.

As time and generations went on, women started to gain equal opportunities to do what men did, but it still wasn’t the “norm”.   In the Joy Luck Club, author Amy Tan demonstrates how a younger generation of women attempted to break from established stereotypes and forge into new career paths. Most of the characters in the novel encounter the problems of sexsim through both their Chinese and American cultures.

1). This is not acceptable, because by not facing realities, it made the poverty issue in Japan worse, therefore increasing every year. The problem escalated because the higher ups in Japans refused to do their jobs and do something about the poverty issue before the situation got worse. Another resident of Japan said that “when her daughter needed $700 to buy school uniforms on entering high school last year, a common requirement here, she saved for it by cutting back to two meals a day” (Fackler, 2010, P. 1). The fact that a mother had to save up money by not eating certain meals each day shows just how bad poverty has become in Japan.

In this time period in which the wind whispers sweet melodies while carrying the tender flower petals and where the people of Japan enjoyed the last moments of the serene past called the Edo Period. Japan was once a matriarchal society and changed due to the inflow of Confucian values therefore the ability of woman holding power eroded. Confucian values honor tradition,hierarchy,male dominance,integrity,righteousness and gender roles. In Confucian values it stresses about male over woman and woman did not exist. Men usually do outside businesses for instance politics,construction and etc.

Alvarez,Erika Mr.Kegley Health Science/ 4th period 22 September 2015 Teen Pregnancy and Confidentiality Girls that don’t have a education may end up on the streets. In my side I said that girls that get pregnant in a really early age is really sad because they don’t think about their future, dropping out high school and parents kick them out from their houses. It is important for teens to think about their future. Girls that are 15 years old they get pregnant and at the same time they just feel like killing their self because they think that their parents will not respond for that. Yeah of course our parents are not responding for this!!

I find it disturbing that a father would kill their child if it was a girl. I know that having a male was more valued than a female, but they should not go as far as killing a child or treat her like a "slave". Another fact I was knowledgeable about before reading “Injustices to Chinese Woman” was the reason for binding a woman’s foot in this era was a symbol of beauty in the Chinese culture. Women with smaller feet were considered very beautiful. Now I don’t actually understand how the size of a foot can depict beauty or wealth, but I found this to be an extremely ridiculous and painful practice in a culture.

The reason of why Hazel took the non-paying job at New Hope School in Boise City was because she felt bad about the school not getting the proper support that the school needs in order to run smoothly. Another reason of why New Hope School was broken and couldn’t pay the teachers was because the farmers had stop paying taxes which led the school to go bankrupt without no support from the government nor the president. Hazel had a newborn baby girl named Ruth Nell; she died on dust pneumonia when she was just a year

Women’s place and role in the society is something that has been discussed and changed over time. Should their rights be the same as men’s? Should they be superior? Inferior? The world faces a dilemma on weather they should be or not equal as men.

Children were put in situation where they had to choose between school and work. Most times the choice was work because they had to support their family. Child laborer took advantage of this. They hired children from about ages four to fourteen to work in factories or on the farm. The children worked long hours with minimal breaks.