As seen in Greenhalgh’s and Winckler’s book, the one-child policy resulted in many single daughters, who received all the attention from their parents and while it may have been a blessing to some, many of the “hottest and best paying jobs… are open exclusively to young women with good looks and sex appeal,” (Doc D). This statement portrays that women are thought of as objects, with prospective employers only looking at their physical appearance, not caring for their education of inner self. However, this also portrays the gender inequality exhibited by China, and shows that women in China only receive jobs because of how they look. This compares to Fitzpatrick’s article, as the practice of female infanticide, killing female infants, also became common practice in some area’s after the one-child policy was put into use (Doc E). It had long been known in China, that boys were more valuable than girls, and this practice further goes to show the chasm, between boys and girls in Chinese society.
This demonstrates how the gender norms and culture are changing in China and it is for the
The Washington Post’s article “China’s one-child policy led to my adoption — and a more privileged life” was an insightful article about how the one-child policy in China has contributed to the adoption process. The article is written by Ricki Mudd and it tells her story of her childhood and her reunion with her birth parents after being put up for adoption due to the one-child policy. Mudd’s story is not uncommon among Chinese girls. Mudd was the first-born child in her family, but she was not a male; her parents did not want to give her up but they also wanted a son. After attempting to hide her for several years, Mudd was taken away and put up for adoption.
The one child policy in China was a bad policy because the fertility rates started dropping before the policy, the amount of emotional damage it put on families, and how much only children suffered. The one-child policy was a bad idea because of the impacts on the before and after of the fertility rates. In document B we read that, "China had already achieved a remarkable fertility reduction, halving the number of children per woman from 5.8 in 1970 to 2.7 in 1979," (Document B). This policy is unnecessary because the fertility rates are already dropping naturally.
Lessons for women is a piece of writing I disagree with. Times have changed and women now have a voice. Although it might have been a sign of respect in the time period author Ban Zhao lived in, today we think differently. Ban Zhao did achieve great things and although I disagree with some of the things she teaches I truly think she was a woman of honor. Not because she followed the rules that were taught to her but because she was the first known female Chinese historian.
Yuhui Li's Women's Movement and Change in Women's Status in China argues that the main reason for male intellectual's support of the women's movement in China was their belief that bound feet and lack of education hurt a woman's ability to raise a strong future population. While this document shows the desire for women's equality in China, it also shows that women were still expected to keep similar roles such as raising children and maintaining the household. (Doc. 5) This document is a secondary source and offers a more conclusive
What China was trying to achieve with the One Child Policy was fix a problem they had caused in the first place, when, Mao Zedong, encouraged having more children to have more future workers, and discouraged the use of birth controls (Intro). The One Child Policy came into place in 1980, effected the ethnicity of Han Chinese and was definitely not one of China’s best ideas. It caused many hardships for the citizens of China. The policy was unnecessary for many of three reasons: the fertility rate was already dropping, there is a huge gender and age imbalance, as well as it is to blame for some of the youth’s social issues. From 1970 to 1979 there was a big reduction in fertility rates in China from 5.8 to 2.7, which was prior to the One
In the journal article “Two, Three, Four and More Child Policy,” A.J Jowett explains that the Chinese government are trying to control the overpopulation even if that means
In addition to the New York Times, he has also worked in Tokyo for the Wall Street Journal, the Far Eastern Economic Review, Associated Press and Bloomberg News. The author is very credible with all his education and experience in writing. Fackler’s article is objective because he quotes other people’s ideas, stories, and opinions. He doesn’t give his straight opinion. Fewer women being born has an effect, which this article brought up, unlike the others.
In the book Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang, the author talks about the stories of her grandmother and mother as well as herself during their journeys as women in China. The book discusses how gender roles, political ideology, and economic ideology in China change over time. During the entirety of Chinese history, many changes and continuities transpired and had crucial impacts on China. However, a great amount of change occurred during the time period from the 1900s to present day. These changes and continuities incorporate happenings in areas concerning the treatment of women, political structure, and economic capacity.
Women were one of the most oppressed groups in the Soviet and China. As described in Women, the state and Revolution, “Women’s oppression was rooted in motherhood” (Goldmen, 32). Being a mother at that time meant being confined to the house with the expectations of fulfilling household duties such as; making sure the house was in order, the children were taken care of, and the husband was satisfied. Women didn’t have much rights or any say at all making communism the glimmer of hope that women desired.
The women’s lives and their experiences were dependent on the status of the women. In higher societal ranks, Han Chinese women would be more protected and more respected compared to the women in the lower classes of the social hierarchy. The elite women were educated and held official positions, where the women often worked away from home (Module 6) In ancient China, specifically in the Song Dynasty, women were typically assigned more constrictive gender roles than those of Mesoamerican cultures. Confucian ideologies played an influential role in shaping Chinese society, promoting the concept that women should primarily focus on their domestic duties instead of engaging in public life (Stayer 322). As a result, women were often limited to fulfilling their roles as wives and mothers, with fewer opportunities for social mobility or public engagement.
She brings a lot of different knowledge of things are different around the world, and maybe a view of how she believes thing should be. Her book is about how the emerging Dagongmei class was formed from the shifting of economic practices from socialism to capitalism, and how the shift affects sexual relations and social change. The scream of the dagongmei is at the state, capital, and patriarchy, as well as against globalism. The transformation of China into the world's factory will be met with resistance and a redefinition of women’s role in Chinese society. Pun Ngai set out to write a book about her experience among the repressed group of women working in factories and talk about how the changing economic landscape in China has affected their role in
Everyone knows that China has an overpopulated country and it continues to grow. Since this is occurring the government decided to put a limit on how many children a woman can have and what gender it has to be. This takes away a person's right of freedom to choose what they want to do with their lives. China’s government created this policy in 1979 to help reduce the country’s population. They told their people that it would only last for a small period of time, but it’s still happening 37 years later.
China has a one child policy and the policy is part of the family planning process because China has limited space and a growing population and to help reduce the population growth China set a rule to only one child per family. But baby girls are discriminated against in china because they aren't as worthy as baby boys because “traditional chinese values: considered daughters as a product that wouldn't make any profit because they didn't have the ability to work life
