... platalks about how women were viewed by society during the cultural revolution. " Today, I"m often invited to give speeches about the " new modern female"- meaning a women with progressive ideas that fit our new society. What a joke! The deformed capitalism we have in China has had made ... justify such discrimination by saying that they cannot afford the benefits they are required to provide for pregnant women, nursing mothers and infants. The proportion of women to men declines at each educational tier, with women comprising some 25% of undergraduates in universities. Institutions of ...

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... of women will be exposed. It was found that men and women were not treated equal. I found that men by nature were important and the female were less important, the male is the ruler and the female is the subject. The Greek word for woman, "gyne" was also their word for wife. No distinction was made between the two, which leads one ... . "Xenophon believed that God had created women for this purpose and he also believed that since God had created the woman and had imposed on her the nourishment of the infants, he meted out to her a larger portion of affection for new-born babes than to th...

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... . The Hindu religion has many goddeses who enjoyed equal status with their husbands. Presently the picture seems to be very different: there are horrendous stories of "dowry deaths", stories of female infanticide, women in small towns and villages are victimized by their husbands and families. Society continues to treat widows, divorcees, and abandoned women with contempt. The problems Indian women face ... sometimes harrased or even killed by the husband or his mother. b) Desire for a male baby Many women are forced to have an abortion if they carry a baby girl. Sometimes baby infants a...

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