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Sexism is a common hurdle that women have to cross both in American and Chinese cultures. In America, for instance, when the chess prodigy, Waverly Jong, tries to join the old men for a game of chess, they taunt her because she is simply a girl and girls are expected to play with their little dolls, not chess. In China, people force An-Mei’s mother to marry her future husband just because he rapes her and she has to preserve her honor while the husband, due to being a man, may marry any number

As discussed in a recent essay by Saul Kaplan “The Plight of Young Males”, there is a serious academic gender achievement gap in the United States and as I will discuss, around the world. Young women are doing significantly better than young men, and the results are shocking. In the latest census, males make up 51 percent of the total U.S. population between the ages of 18-24. Yet only 40 percent of today’s college students are men. Since 1982, more American women than men have received bachelor’s degrees. In the last ten years, two million more women graduated from college than men. As Kaplan reveals, the average eleventh-grade boy writes at the level of the average eighth-grade girl. He also states that women dominate high school honor rolls and now make up more than 70 percent of class valedictorians. Kaplan says, “I am happy to see women succeeding. But can we really afford for our country’s young men to fall so far behind,” (733)?

Based on Lessons for Women, women in the China were taught that they were unworthy, unsophisticated, unenlightened and by nature unintelligent. (Strayer

An example of gender inequality is shown in Document 5.1. It states that Confucius rarely talks about women and the reason being that he, Confucius, believes women have limited importance in Chinese society. Document 5.1 also talks about the work of Ban Zhou, a Chinese woman born into an elite family (which shows that China is a very patriarchal society in which Confucianism was abundant through China), and she was given a fine literary education. One of her works, Lessons for Women, talks about how the Chinese society was unfair to women and how the principles of Confucianism affects women's lives and their behavior. She refers to the marriage of man and woman to the Yin and Yang: Yin being the feminine side showing emotion, softness, and weakness and Yang being the masculine side showing power and rationality. She also writes about how childbirth for women was treated poorly. The child would be placed under the bed and given a potsherd, piece of a broken pot, to play with. The placing of the baby girl under the bed indicated that she was lowly and weak and the giving of the potsherd signified house labor and that house labor would be her first duty in the household.

Historically males have been the primary beneficiaries of education. It’s a man’s world, men are the creators of civilizations, laws and education in America. Men have created a system where they can be cater too in every way possible. Men usually have first pick of what they want to do with their life, they tend to have a choice whether to attend college. Woman before did not have much of a choice to attend college to seek a career, woman have usually gotten marry and raised kids. Conlin says “The gender gap also has roots in the expectation gap, in the 1970’s boys

Not too long ago, men were considered superior and were in charge of controlling the world because their role in society allowed them to be the dominant gender. Now that women have more privileges, gender roles are altering and women are starting to outshine the men. Studies have established that there are more women receiving higher education by attending universities and colleges than men. The articles The Lost Boys by Elaine McArdle and The New Gender Gap by Michele Conlin focus on how originally men had the advantage of education until recently when women students started to outnumber and outperform the men. McArdle and Conlin are writing about how men are becoming the secondary gender while women have the upper hand. The message that these

In “Investing in Education”, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn illustrate how having the power of education can help overcome poverty, inequality and economic development. It’s begins with the story of a young girl the met when they were newly married, Dai Manju, in China. The family lived in a one room wooden shack, with no running water or electricity, plus they share the space with a large pig. Dai Manju is an excellent student, but she was forced to drop out of sixth grade, because her parents didn’t see any reason for girls to get an education if they going to spend their time “hoeing fields and darning socks” (Kristof and WuDunn, 167). However, Dai Manju life changed drastically when Kristof wrote an article for the New York Times about her story.

“How did the disruption of the educational system during the Cultural Revolution affect the life outcomes of people who were getting their educations in the period 1966-75?” By using this as a topic to question, I will be reviewing the impact of the lack of education had on people as they got older and began looking for jobs in China. Although it may seem clear to many on why missing an education would make it harder for one to obtain a job, I still think it needs to be looked into as why this education was stopped, and following with the affects it had on people.

The Chinese government set up a wide system of primary schools. For the first time in all of China’s history the majority of the population received a complete basic education. Even though the government’s “Great Leap Forward” program didn’t put

One way that some people tried to deny the sexist behavior in China is saying that women actually have more power than men. They supported this idea by saying that women can control their sons or husbands which directly reflects on controlling Chinese society. This argument is invalid because, although women did have some sort of control over their sons and husbands, it was not the kind of control that would affect their career or important decisions. The kind of control that they had was within the family. For example, if they wanted something to be done within the family and they knew they did not have the power to do it, they would try to use their husbands or sons as an excuse. However, this did not have a great effect on the important issues of their husbands and sons. Even if they were going to use the males as an excuse, the males have the ultimate decision and control of whether they will listen to the wife or disregard her wishes.

Gender inequality is one of the central themes in the novel The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan. I think that the title “The Kitchen God’s Wife” itself recognizes that many individuals believe that a woman's role in society pertains to completing domestic chores. Her husband, the God, dominates over her actions in the kitchen. Basically, woman have no position, neither outside or inside the sphere of their home. It is revealed that social divisions between males and females in China continue from early childhood and last until late adulthood. To begin with, Winnie Louie is taught the importance of obeying others, putting others ahead of herself, and maintaining healthy relationships. When she first gets her period, her aunt tells her that a

The differences that exist between the Chinese and American education systems are great and obvious. However, some of these differences don’t play to the strengths of the representative country. American schools allow for greater freedom of movement and choice, while Chinese schools decide the “what”, “where”, and “how” of educational circumstance for the students (Bush, tony, and Qiang Haiyan). These differences in structure should lead to a greater educational standard being held by China, but that isn’t always the case. This paper will examine the differences in education system in the two countries and show that the Chinese system, while

Gender differences occur in many aspects of a person’s life whether it is culture, politics, occupation, family and relationships, or the economy (just to name a few). One major difference in gender occurs in learning and education in the elementary and secondary levels. Research has found that males and females learn differently in many aspects of education. First of all, female and male brains are constructed differently affecting the way they learn; this leads to basic differences in learning and also gives an introduction into why the way one learns differs according to gender and how males and females learn subjects and tasks differently. Second, males and females are treated differently, sometimes unconsciously, in educational

Gender equity in terms of education is about the socialization of men and women and the results of this process on the life outcomes of the two genders (Husen & Postlethwaite, 1994). In the United States, the education system is required to treat males and females equally. There has been much research done to compare the genders in all areas. In the past, research has found that women fall far behind men in many areas such as math, and science, but men lag behind women in certain areas as well. Over the years, many provisions have been made with the goal of equalizing the treatment of girls and boys in public education. These improvements are proven successful as women, as well as men, are advancing in areas where they tend to lag

I am not a scientist; this is a fact I have known this since I was in primary school. Instead, I found that I was extremely interested in all the historical textbooks and the old traditional stories that I could lose myself in, and not worry about struggling with numbers and equations. Without a second thought, I chose history as my major four years ago and made an effort to learn and understand the story of how the present came about. After spending my wonderful college times researching and taking my favourite history classes, I have finally discovered my field of interest – the status of Chinese women.