中美女性地位的变化原因及对比.docVIP

Female’s family role and social change From the history, we can roughly learn four stages of family roles of the female. Great changes have taken place in the society, as well as among the female’s life and statue. In the early times in America, women are supposed to work as a servant to their husbands. Women have no rights in their family, let alone rights of politics and social issues. As late as 1850,wife-beating was legal in almost all the states of the U.S. The wife had no power in family matters and her possessions and earnings belonged to her husband. Things are worse in China, women are not only the servant of their husband, but also can be sold as slaves. One man has several wives is common in ancient China. Exactly, the women should be called concubines except the leading or legal wife. And those women are treated as child bearers. However, most Chinese women have be household wives for a long time. They do not need to work outside, and they can do some work in their own house ,such as doing some washing, sewing, and coking. And they need to take good care of their children if they live in a poor family. If they live in a rich family, they do not need to do much house work, because the servants will do it. But they need to obey whatever their husbands told them. So, American women just do not have some basic rights, while Chinese women are tortured by their husbands and the society, and they are not treated as human to some degree. The industrial revolution speed up the development of American women’s movement and their awareness of obtaining more rights. After the industrial revolution, the U.S. Industry developed so fast that the country turned to a industrial country from an agricultural country. The development of economy had a profound influence on the female. Opportunities for women to work outside the household increased, so many women could earn money by themselves. Women living in the bottom of the society wor