Why was the status of men higher than that of women in ancient times?

1. The birth of private ownership. Patriarchal society, the development of productivity, the birth of private ownership. Men are naturally superior to women in terms of physical strength and other physiological aspects, and in the early stages of human evolution, greater physical strength meant more food sources and more chances of survival in tribal warfare.

2. Economic returns are different. Agrarian society, men can better husband, get more revenue, is the family's economic wealth, in ancient times can get more nurturing return, in the case of limited or even scarce resources, but also constitutes the parents patriarchal thought of economic reasons.

3. The bondage of feudal ethical thinking. In the Song Dynasty, especially under the influence of the Southern Song's Cheng and Zhu theories, women's thinking was greatly confined, and the program and ethics, prompting women to have to depend on men, the status of the natural low.

Expanded:

p>The first thing that really lowered the status of women should be the Han Dynasty, which respected Confucianism, and Confucianism has a lot of ideas that are forbidden to women, the entire Han Dynasty advocated the idea that "a woman's lack of talent is a virtue", without having to be able to do so.

There were also two books, "Women's Commandments" and "Biographies of Women" to regulate the thinking of girls. Interestingly, the author of "Women's Commandments", Ban Zhao, is a woman, and her "Women's Commandments" was also listed as one of the books for women's compulsory reading by the Ming Dynasty later on.

Until now many places with patriarchal thinking and some patriarchal families keep having children regardless of their affordability until they give birth to a boy.

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