C/C Essay Prompt: compare the role of women under the Tokugawa Shogunate with Western Europe and Ming china. Though the women were very subordinate to men, they also did things for themselves. With the social structure for women it depended on which class that you were in. sometimes if you were in the higher classes then the women were treated differently, meaning a little better that the women that were in the lower classes. The women from all three of the countries had to participate in farmworke or some type of work that would benefit the house.
What was life like for women in the Paleolithic Period, and why did their social status change afterward? According to some scholars, women in the Paleolithic period had a rather equal status with men. Shortly after the Neolithic period began, though, that status fell and an inequality between the genders came into existence. I love how the book puts it: “The inequalities of gender...decisively shaped the character of the First Civilizations and those that followed.” p.73. In other words, gender inequality played a huge role in the world from thousands of years ago and still today.
To answer this question research will be made into how women were expected to act in western European society through nobility, townswomen and women that were considered peasants. This will be shown through varying views held as some believed that being a second class citizen depended on your class and where you were from as some women might have had more of a chance to step away from the sex classes, while others didn’t have this opportunity. This will help answer the question about whether or not women were second class citizens, and whether how right this question is about women or how wrong it is. If we look at noble women in the medieval ages between 1100-1400, they were able to have a happy life with wealth and riches that they could use at their disposal. Though there was more pressure on women in nobility compared to other women as they had more “demanded of them than other women.” While the husbands were at home they still had to obey them, this can’t be said though when the men go away for business, travel or for war because the women of the house would hold the authority.
To what extent did women’s lives change 1850-1901? Women’s lives may not have changed a great deal between the years 1850 and 1901 but the changes that did occur did have an impact on women’s lives. Though there may have been some much bigger changes that came after this time period, it was the changes that happened in these years that kick started the change for women politically and socially. In 1850 women’s roles within society were extremely restricted and they had very limited opportunities. Women were expected to marry, have children and financially they were expected to be fully dependent on their husbands.
They owned possessions and property within the calpul organization. The Aztecs were civilization like many that practiced polygamy. Polygamy weakened the role of women in the Aztec royal families because of their sons were not guaranteed succession. The father is referred to as the “the source of the lineage, who is administrator, who rears and teaches others, lives a model life , stores up for others and cares for his assets.” The mother on the other hand “has children and suckles them. “ She too, is sincere, and diligent, but also vigilant, agile, energetic in work, watchful, solicitous and full of anxiety.” She teaches people but “serves others” and is “apprehensive for their welfare, careful, thrifty, and constantly at work (Winter,
A mixture of these factors led to the change in the position of women in society, the increase in equality, especially legally, including the right to vote (legal factor), the increase in educational opportunities (social factor) meant that women chose to educate themselves before starting a family, the increase in work opportunities with laws banning unequal pay and sex discrimination (social/legal factor)and changing attitudes in society meant that it was socially acceptable for women to be employed whereas traditionally the wife would be the housewife and the husband would be the breadwinner and would financially support his family. Recently, the number of people dying has also decreased in the UK as there is an increase in life
Women had few rights and were controlled by their husbands. Changing attitudes towards women in British society was an important factor in winning women the vote in 1918 however other factors were also involved. The peaceful actions of the suffragists and the violence of the suffragettes helped win support and publicity for women suffrage. The role of women at home in Britain during WW1and international pressure of introducing women’s suffrage also led to women receiving the vote by 1918. Changing attitude towards women in Britain society helped women achieve the vote in 1918.
An external factor is a factor in which affects the education system from outside for example home and family. Sociologist argue that the difference between the achievement of each gender is through several external factors , in which are causing girls to achieve better than boys within school, these consist of ; The impacts of feminist; since the 1960’s the feminist movement have challenged the typical stereotype of woman’s roles within society as a mother alongside being a housewife. Feminist still believe they have not yet achieved full equality, however have improved woman’s rights and opportunity’s through the use of laws, as well as this feminism have largely raised expectations and self-esteems of woman. An example of this would be through McRobbie; she took a comparison of girl magazines in the 1970’s and 1990’s. In the 1970’s magazines like Jackie Largely promoted marriage and being a housewife, whereas in the 1990’s magazines took a different approach of personal choice and independence of woman.
The nobles became the main subject and high class of the society in both civilizations. Incas had required the women to weave high quality textiles for the state and so it would profit not only them now but for the future generations of the Inca civilizations. Incas tried to combine their empire by establishing roads connecting the vast empire and political structure that would make them all to be on the same side or they would have to go. While the Aztecs however did not do much to unify their empire by political means with this in mind the empires of both civilizations did however gave thought to the local ethnic groups and political leaders. Both allowing the differences from one region or group to another but they must recognize that Incan and Aztecan, is their sovereignty, depending on which empire they lived in and paid tribute to the state .The Incas did not demand tribute as with the Aztecs did but they explicated their land from there clans and collected many of the crops to spread thorough the empire very similar to which the Spaniards did with their working
They had to provide food and supplies for their families, protect themselves against danger, and still leave room for church and leisurely activities. One of the biggest differences from their life in England was that the colonist would now have to grow and supply their own food. They would be farming on their land and have to take care of their own crops. They learned what crops would grow best and how to take care of them from the local Indians. Without that help the colonist might have never survived because it was something they were not used to having to do, or even something they really even knew how to do.