Trace the changes in the role of women seen in China over the decades.

1.	Trace the changes in the role of women seen in China over the decades. Why is it similar or different from that of the USSR and Germany?
Answer» 1. Long back Chinese women were forced to follow the practice of foot binding, they were subordinated and sufferers, of polygamy. 2. They were not allowed the public life. 3. Till 1940s they were confined to household. 4. Mao supported the emergence of rural women’s associations, stopped purchase or sale of marriage contracts. 5. After New Democracy women got protective rights and polygamy was abolished. 6. It is similar to women of the USSR who were provided with rights after revolution. 7. In Germany no such provisions were there till the end of Second World War.

Trace the changes in the role of women seen in China over the decades. Why is it similar or different from that of the USSR and Germany?

Answer»

1. Long back Chinese women were forced to follow the practice of foot binding, they were subordinated and sufferers, of polygamy.

2. They were not allowed the public life.

3. Till 1940s they were confined to household.

4. Mao supported the emergence of rural women’s associations, stopped purchase or sale of marriage contracts.

5. After New Democracy women got protective rights and polygamy was abolished.

6. It is similar to women of the USSR who were provided with rights after revolution.

7. In Germany no such provisions were there till the end of Second World War.