What was the status of ancient women in China? What is the specific performance?

Before the establishment of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Our primitive society is matriarchal. At that time, the status of women was higher than that of men. Before the emergence of matriarchal society again, women were raised at home and had children. On the other hand, it is a kind of nature to bring home the bacon and hunt a man.

From stone civilization to cold weapon age. The dominant position of men is gradually increasing. Tribes will raise awareness of their activities. The beginning of the tribe produced contradictions and wars. Feminist status and patriarchal social status began to alternate with each other. Since the Xia Dynasty, patriarchal clan system has been established. On the contrary, we can see that women's status gradually retreated from the level at that time to men's families, and they taught each other.

At this time, women began to become the private property of men. A man can have multiple wives. Although there were many outstanding women in ancient China, Mi Yue was a typical representative of Qin State. I also have to attach myself to the position of male dominance.

Since then, in the heyday of the Western Han Dynasty. Wei Zifu was a rare queen who played an important role in the prosperity of the Western Han Dynasty. But Wei Zifu, the Queen, also suffered a tragic fate.

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, women's social status was vague, and women's status was getting bigger and bigger. It depends on the influence of Wu Zetian as emperor in Tang Dynasty. Until then, women must marry whoever they want. If her husband dies on the battlefield, it's only because of the widow. Ancient times. It is a very shameful thing for a woman to remarry.

During the Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties, the status of women changed subtly. Among them, these dynasties all had a law to protect a woman's rights and interests.

So in the Ming dynasty after the yuan dynasty, in the early Ming dynasty. After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, due to the consolidation of Zhu Yuanzhang's dominant position, women were forbidden to remarry in the Ming Dynasty. Women were allowed to remarry before entering the customs in Qing dynasty, but after entering the customs, marriage between Manchu and Han was prohibited by law because of a ruling class of Han people. Judging from the treatment of women's status in Ming and Qing Dynasties, the concept of dominance is very important.

In the late Qing Dynasty, foreign powers invaded the Qing government, and foreign ideas began to pour in. At this time, democratic ideas began to sprout gradually. Democratic Thought They put forward that men and women have equal status, and at this time, the status of women has been improved unprecedentedly.

But ... there was a huge loophole in the early years of the Republic of China. They are common to an advanced intellectual, but there are still many unequal treatments for bureaucracy and the concept of the landlord class.

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Gender discrimination still exists, and women's rights and interests need multiple guarantees.

Women in China have completed the transformation from "men are superior to women" to "equal". They hold up "half the sky" and are even dubbed by netizens as "covering the sky with one hand" at home.

However, behind the above gratifying changes, incorrect concepts and practices such as gender discrimination and son preference still exist, especially gender discrimination in employment.

Hui Liang, a recent graduate of a university in Beijing, said that the above problems have become commonplace in combination with her job-hunting experience in the past six months.

Hui Liang told Zhongxin. com reporter. Com believes that although the state expressly stipulates that employers are not allowed to have gender discrimination in recruitment, this behavior can also be clearly found in communication with employers.

"Many companies indicate in their recruitment plans that both male and female employees are recruiting, but in fact boys are still' popular'. Many companies will deliberately ask me about my love status and marriage and childbirth plans during the interview. " Hui Liang said, "If women say they want to get married within two years, it will be difficult to pass the interview."

Xiao Xu, a deputy to the National People's Congress, pointed out in an interview with the media a few days ago that it is necessary for the society to reshape the new concept of equality between men and women and eliminate the concept that enterprises prefer boys to girls.

In addition to gender discrimination in employment, invisible discrimination such as "leftover women" and "son preference" in childbirth makes women in China feel anxious.

In this regard, Dai Xiuying, member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of the Agricultural Workers' Party, said that the institutions and mechanisms of gender equality in China need to be improved urgently. The state should take measures to improve the position of the Women's Federation in the decision-making system, and at the same time, establish a gender statistics system, conduct gender analysis on relevant policies of various departments, effectively prevent the introduction of gender discrimination policies, and strengthen the implementation of the basic national policy of gender equality.

Fu Ying, the first spokeswoman since the founding of the National People's Congress, also said at the press conference on March 4, 20 14 that there is still a patriarchal concept in society, the most serious of which is domestic violence, and the All-China Women's Federation has always hoped to legislate specifically against domestic violence.

"China still has a long way to go to truly protect women's rights and realize gender equality." Fu Ying said. (At the request of the respondents, some characters in the text are pseudonyms) (Source: China News Network White Tiger)

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