Essay Exam 1 Anth316

I agree with the B position because of the Kung have always been known as an egalitarian society with men just slightly holding a more powerful influence given their authoritative nature and status from bringing the tribe the rare luxury of meat; however, in more recent years, Kung women have taken a more assertive role in the Kung society, especially in decision-making and I feel that the Kung men have been put in their place and truly understand the value of women within their society and are treated them more equally.

The !Kung are hunter-gatherers of Southern Africa and the women play an essential role in the production of subsistence for their families. The woman actually contribute a greater proportion of the subsistence to their families directly than do the men who are the game hunters in the family. As Friedl describes in “Society and Sex Roles” (page 101) regardless of

Gender inequality is a colossal problem, but in the Hmong Community, it is the most known problem. Because of old Hmong traditions, there is a lack of education for women, and the effects do not produce a happy outcome. In the Hmong Community, men are emphasize as the leader. They are the better one, the one who can follow their dreams and be looked at as an inspiration. However, women cannot have this role as they are told to learn the qualities of a housewife: cooking, cleaning, having children and raising them. Often times, men are the only ones who can pursue education. Women who pursue their dreams and have an education are seen as shameless and a bad influence. The outcome only leaves more pressure to the men. This causes men to feel

Yes, women take young children with them when they gather, but when it comes to carrying them around, men and women both tend to do it, until the children are weaned of this. A good example of equality, is how the men make sure to help the women wean the child, say when Nisa wants to keep drinking breast milk, the father pulls her off and threatens to hit her saying “can't you see how swollen your mother is?” (47). Though, on the other hand, the men can have multiple wives while women can not. Though, the women can “chase” off the other wives, as nisa did. (121). I personally agree with the idea that Kung men have a higher status and power in society. Men, can get away with much more, and do have the power to hit their wives in fights (they seem, at least from the book to be the ones to strike first). Women, often fight back, but they rarely start the hitting. Additionally, the fact that men can have multiple wives, and it may not be considered cheating, shows me that Kung! Men have more power.

Women have always had a history with oppression and gender role. Traditionally, the female stereotype was to marry young to bear children of the next generation. She was to be completely submissive to her husband; she had to maintain a welcoming home, she had to completely care for their children. Children of which she didn’t even have rights to if her husband died. Domestic duties were her entire world and her sole purpose was to make her husband’s life as

In Rome society was dominated by the men, this could be seen in the difference of legal rights of men and women. After learning about some of the early civilizations it’s quite obvious that these civilizations all followed these historical trends in some form. Where women had a lower status compared to men, and were not given equal

Living the life in a foraging society, people had no control of the source of food and it could be brutal. They depended on the food that they hunted and gathered. These societies didn’t have an efficient system of obtaining food. The men and women both spent their time searching for food, which could’ve showed gender equality. Searching for food could be dangerous for these people because they could be attacked/killed by animals or even humans. They were demographically small and always on the move, they did not build permanent shelters or dwellings and had few personal possessions.

In the book China: A Nation in Transition, many topics are covered, including the one-child policy, religious ceremonies, and most importantly, women's rights and emancipation. In the chapter Chinese Communism and Emancipation of Women, the reader learns about various issues China has with gender inequality between men and women along with quickly growing campaigns and efforts in the pursuit of equal rights. For example, this chapter covers what rulers have done in order to help women , like when the young Mao Zedong added women studying abroad to his socialist society, along with pointing out some discrepancies between men and women, like passing the Health Care and Labor Organizations law creating limitations on jobs women can perform. On

Conceability to access to power is very limited and stiffed, but they still try to choose paths or achieve their goals within masculine society (Laura, 2009). On the other hand, agriculturalists women in Sub-Saharan Africa suffer from unequally in the distribution of lands and resources although they should contribute in the household expenses while they get less than men do, and they work the same as men do. For the classical system their issues is more about society role, but in Sub-Saharan Africa, women could have economic challenges out of that inequality. “According to sex role theory, we acquire our gender identity through socialization, and afterward, we are socialized to behave in masculine or feminine ways. It is thus the task of

The social gender inequality has been a serious problem since the ancient period. Women were dominated by men and had little power in the society. Men were mostly doing agriculture work or hunting. On the contrary, women were basically doing works like house cleaning, breeding children, and making clothes that they played the domestic role in a family. Although the historical event—enlightenment emphasized the importance of human rights, it is excluded the women’s rights. After the emergency of capitalism, the situation became worse and women had less power and rights either in family or in society. People earn money through works and consume products according to their financial ability. The gap made by wealth, status, and power promotes

Deming stressed that the lowest levels of operational staff in an organization must assume the overriding responsibility for quality management.

During the course, the History of Women in Asia, I learn that Confucianism has caused Japanese and Chinese female social status to fall into to a very low position for a long time. Being impacted by Confucian feudal ethical thoughts, people believe that “A woman’s duty is not to control or take charge”, “Women’s greatest duty is giving birth to a son” and “Men are superior to women”. Women have been at the bottom of the Confucian hierarchy during the era. Meanwhile, Japan is also profoundly influenced by Confucianism. Sexual division of labor, which is similar to the concept of breadwinner-homemaker family, takes shape in Japan and China. But with the wakened awareness of gender equality, female social status is improved, and ideas mentioned

Hegemonies, as Ortner uses them, relate the whole social process to specific distributions of power and influence (Ortner, 145). Gender is not always the most important axis to examine power in society; sometimes the power could be distributed along a different axis such as age or economic class (146). The gender hegemony, which seems to couple with an economic hegemony, is seen in Jennaway’s distinctions between what people believe and what actually happens in the society. There is an idea of gender parity across the sexes, yet women are subordinated in practice (Jennaway, 33-4). Men have a higher status and more economic security (59). Women do the housework and care for the children while still doing other jobs that they are able to secure (49-51). Women are not only subordinate within the confines of their household, but they are muted in society. Women are represented in the sankapan only by men; it is only after menopause that women may gain some social power and a political voice of their own

1. The results of modernization and western cultural values on the social status and economic status in “Third World” women can be greatly attributed and resulted from colonialism, industrialization, and economic and political system have resulted in the status of women. Men were drawn into the labor force and women were relegated to domestic work and jobs that are not substantial. It is all gender-related economically and politically, for example the ownership of land, the lack of colonial administrators registering women’s assists and the lack of access to money to purchase land. This is just one example on the western’s influence and changes to the Third World that affected these women in these countries.

Ancient Period--It cannot be clearly stated whether men and women got equal rights during the Vedic period. But available sources show that liberal attitudes and practices towards women did exist. Women were actively involved in religious and social activities. They had freedom to choose their partner in marriage and a widow was permitted to remarry.