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Uyghur Muslim women were oppressed and often held domestic service positions, while Han Chinese women were free and given a choice of profession. [100] When Uyghur Muslim women married Han Chinese men, the women were hated by their families and people. The Uyghur Muslims viewed single unmarried women as prostitutes and held them in extreme ...
Women in China have better chances of being promoted with an intellectual and ethnic minority background. This reveals the prejudice held by many Chinese female and male politicians, and demonstrates that the CCP advances the interests of marginalised groups. Women are primarily promoted as a token gesture rather than based on merit, such as men.
A study of unemployment duration among urban Chinese women indicated that married women have a higher layoff rate, longer unemployment periods and less opportunity to be re-employed than married men. In the traditional Chinese view, women are expected to be family caregivers and men are expected to be family breadwinners.
During China's land reform movement (which began after the defeat of the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War and continued in the early years of the People's Republic of China), the CCP encouraged rural women in achieving a "double fanshen" - a revolutionary transformation as both a peasant and a feminist awakening as a woman. [10]
During this period, literature about women emerged in China, such as "Mother of Mencius", "The Analects of Women", [9] etc., explaining to women at the time how to be ethical and popularizing the best way of serving parents, husbands and sons in a woman's life. Prior to the 20th century, women in China were considered essentially different from ...
The strict division of the sexes, apparent in the policy that "men plow, women weave" (Chinese: 男耕女織), partitioned male and female histories as early as the Zhou dynasty, with the Rites of Zhou (written at the end of the Warring States Period), even stipulating that women be educated specifically in "women's rites" (Chinese: 陰禮 ...
From the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 CE) until the modern period (1840–1919), scholars and rulers developed a male-dominated patriarchal society in China. [8] Patriarchy is a social and philosophical system where men are considered as superior to women, and thus men should have more power in decision-making than women. [9]
The increasing popularity of unwed women in China has been largely accredited to the growing educated middle class. [10] Women are more free and able to live independently in comparison to previous generations. [10] Forbes reported that in 2013, "11 of the 20 richest self-made women in the world are Chinese". [35]