If a woman became a widow and wanted to remarry she would have to give up her inheritance (72). This encouraged women to stay true to her dead husband’s memory. Another stipulation of the Legal Code is that if there is no son to inherit the wealth of his dead father, the inheritance goes to the husband’s family (73). In both cases the rights of women are trumped by men. In 17th century T’an-ch’eng there weren’t many jobs open to women outside of midwives, nurses, servants, spinsters, and as a last recourse, prostitution (123-124).
Marriages were usually based on economic partnership and cultural believes. Husbands ruled over their wives and made all of the family decisions. It was almost impossible for women to be involved in public matters. In fact, women had no right at all to participate in activities that weren’t permitted by the husbands and if they were to do so the men were allowed by the law to punish their wives for disobedience. It felt almost like they were imprisoned in the domestic environment by their Masters who were men.
The first idea to talk about is how the Civil War happened to help the women’s status upon society. When Civil War had taken place, all the men in the households were gone and thus left the women to take control. As women were left home alone with the children, they felt kind of useless due to the fact there is a war going and they thought there was nothing they could do to help. Those women who did try and help on the battlefield were primarily used as nurses. At first, female nurses weren’t used at first since they use male nurses rather than female nurses, who were in fact much cleaner than the males.
She is treated as less than a servant at Gateshead, despite being significantly more than that. Her fault lies in that she has no money of her own, and the only reason that the Reed's care for her is that it was Jane's uncle and Mrs. Reed's husband's dying wish that she should be looked after. John and Jane's other cousins take pleasure in aggravating her regarding her position, for example John Reed says to Jane, 'you are a dependant, mamma says; you have no money; your father left you none; you ought to beg, and not to live here with gentleman's children like
The women don’t have a choice that they get to marry. When a divorce happens, it is an unspeakable, indescribable, and unresolved issue of belonging on behalf to Hmong people. I find this religion different than most, because for almost all religions, don’t kidnap women to be their wife, and when a divorce comes up, they have to go into jury for their divorce and Hmong’s just don’t speak
Additionally, these gender roles negatively affect men in ways that the founding fathers would have never predicted. Many of the gender restrictions that Stanton outlines in The Declaration were enforced with actual laws, such as single women being denied the right to own property as well as being denied the right to vote. Over the years, Americans have decreased the number of explicit restrictions previously imposed on women, but several of these laws remain. In paragraph fifteen, Stanton mentions that women are not allowed to hold positions of power in the church that would supersede or equate to the power of a man. While many women have since become Protestant ministers, they are still not allowed to become priests in the Catholic Church, as decided by the Vatican.
Also, this meant that the married woman had no control over the legal authority of their families. In the rare cases of separation, the fathers had custody of the children. Also, when a young woman was to be married, the only freedom she had was to choose to turn down an offensive suitor selected by her father. Another difference between men and women’s legal status in the colonies was that women were not allowed to preach religion, only men were allowed to do that. That was the legal status of women in the American colonies.
In Athens they way that women were educated was through learning tasks such as weaving, domestic arts, spinning, and other chore like household tasks. There was a very stern law code concerning marriage for Athenian women as well. For instance, an Ancient Athenian woman would not be permitted to enter public sanctuaries wearing any form of jewelry. If a woman did this, the men were able to hit her and make her life basically miserable. Women were also not allowed to make any form of deals or contracts for anything more than a bushel of barley.
Domestic violence was accepted within the community and the husbands didn’t receive any consequence for their actions. Renaissance wives had to be obedient to their husbands, which required you to ask permission to leave your home, speak properly, dress nicely and have all of your skin covered. Divorce was only available to very wealthy woman and it was very rare. The only hope to freedom that renaissance wives had were if they were to become widows and inherit the family’s property become financially independent, but if the husband was in debt they would be passed down the financial burden and left to all the farm work. Whether they were a rural woman or a urban women, during the Renaissance they had all of chores and duties.
All that she owned became her husband’s property and all that she gained during her marriage automatically became her husband’s property. Women of the time did not understand this, because it was ludicrous and unfair. Antebellum women saw no hope of escaping this common law. Women’s caliber of oppression was not as acute as slaves, and they were only allowed a certain amount of bravery, if they wanted to be socially acceptable. Good women of the ear were afraid of the world and of being alone.21 A social convention of the time period was dependent and fearful women made for an appropriate