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Before 1934 when Mao took power, women in china were mostly house wives. They did not do much farming and mostly stayed home and tended to their children. This is a big reason why baby boys were greatly more appreciated then girls because boys could go to work in the field and the girls could not. There was a lot of child marriages, were the girls parents would arrange a marriage with another family. Women were also not allowed to divorce their husbands.

This all changed during the cultural revolution. Women’s role changed dramatically under Mao and his communist government. Women were now able to work in the fields and in the factories in order to help Mao’s communist machine to operate. Women were also allowed to divorce their husbands and Mao outlawed child marriages in a attempt to help protect women. Mao also allowed women to have as many children as possible and gave bonuses to women for every child they ha⨪з

The second and most prominent element of the strategy was integrating women into economic development. The PRC ratified the Convention on⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪⨪ren may have two children. In general, economic development--as well as factors such as small houses and high education expensese last 15 years.

After Mao’s death in 1976 women’s role in china changed again. Deng instituted the one child policy per family in the city and two children per family in the country in order to stop the growing population. Deng opened up the market of china to international trading and in doing made it useless to have women and children working in the fields like they did during Mao’s reign. From 1976 to the mid nineties the Chinese government has made dramatic steps and legislative changes in order to ch

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