Values of Women in Different Cultures

By: Pierre Fils-Aime

 women enter the early historical record, it is often because they caused men problems. Womens roles were primarily kinship roles: daughter, sister, wife, daughter-in-law, mother, and mother-in-law.

Yin was Soft Yielding Receptive Passive Reflective Tranquil

Yang was Hard Active Assertive Dominating

 After 1850, increasingly separate spheres: men worked in factories; women stayed at home Protective legislation drove women out of certain kinds of employment. As the century progressed more jobs were gendered and in jobs defined as womens work wages went down, for instance in teaching and office work.

 By late-19th century, women worked outside the home only in poor families Middle class women began working to organize and expand their rights Italy in 1970s, women gained divorce, access to birth control information and abortion rights

Women in Africa are either: Part of the intellectual working class overburdened overworked mother independent person

The Commander Chief The Womanin Activist: No woman is known in the history of the African Her feminism and democratic reactions and responses to European power socialism lead to the creation of The better than Nana Yaa Asantewa of the Asante Abeokuta womens (AWU) state Edweso in Ghana. Sheunion was the militaryand later International leader ofWomens what is known as the Yaa Asantewa Democratic Federation (WIDF), War, which was the last war between the Asante and the British, and during which that she organizations and movements became referred topromote by the British as the Joan aided Kuti to womens rights DArc Africa. Although she did notand enter to of education, employment to combat herself, the troops fought in her name political participation. and she gave orders and provided the troops with gun powder.

Funmilayo Yaa Asantewa Ransome-Kuti

 31 October 1827 - First Female Workers Riot occurred at the Parramatta Female Factory over conditions and food deprivation. 21 March 1895 - The proclamation for women and equal right with men to vote, and to stand for election to the Colony's House of Assembly. 23 September 1943 - First women elected to the federal parliament Dame Enid Lyons becomes a member of the House of Representatives for the United Australia Party, and the Australian Labor Partys Dorothy Tangney takes a seat in the Senate representing West Australia

 Women were long considered naturally weaker than men domestic chores were relegated to women, leaving "heavier" labor such as hunting and plowing to men Formal education for girls historically has been secondary to that for boys

 American women have had the right to vote since 1920 Not until 1984 did a major party choose a woman to run for vice-president Since 1960 more and more women with children have been in the work force

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