| The traditional family has its own well-known disadvantages and defects, such as be manipulated by parents, treat marriage as business, comply with the three obediences (obey her father before marriage, her husband when married, and her sons in widowhood and the four virtues (morality, proper speech, modest manner and diligent work), pay excessive attention to chasteness, to breach intersexual propriety, obey three cardinal guides( ruler guides subject, father guides son and husband guides wife), practice patriarchy, and so on. Chinese women had been restricted by such unfair and feudal rules for a long time, because of which they were bankrupt in their independent personality and social role, evenly were compelled from the ordinary community. The condition hadn't been changed until the Reform Movement of 1898, when some patriots and progressionists brought in the "talent human rights", which mightily advocate the equity of men and women, and intensively animadvert on the discrimination or persecution of women, until then, the gloomy lives of women became a little bright.Tthe first part presents the characteristic of women's economic condition and theproperty right in families from pre-Ch'in Dynasty to the last feudal regime——QingDynasty have been pulled down, to uncover the historic inevitability and developing orientation of the women's economic improvement, this part explains the background of economic, social, idealistic, political and cultural aspects. The second part analyses some reasons about the women's lowlihead in society and families. On the last part, the ways to solve such problems are put forward, which include that to remove the traditional notion about the women's role, build up new and modern culture to encourage them to go out from the small family to compete with men both in economic and political areas in the real community, put the women's priority protection in the constitution definitely, and step into the women's international protection. |
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