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Values of Women in Different Cultures By: Pierre Fils-Aime
ASIAN CULTURE • women enter the early historical record, it is often because they caused men problems. • Women’s roles were primarily kinship roles: daughter, sister, wife, daughter-in-law, mother, and mother-in-law.
Yin Vs. Yang Yin (Women) Yang (Men) Yang was Hard Active Assertive Dominating • Yin was • Soft • Yielding • Receptive • Passive • Reflective • Tranquil
Women’s Status in Europe History • After 1850, increasingly separate spheres: men worked in factories; women stayed at home • Protective legislation drove women out of certain kinds of employment. As the century progressed more jobs were “gendered” and in jobs defined as “women’s work” wages went down, for instance in teaching and office work.
Women’s Status in Europe History (Cont’d) • By late-19th century, women worked outside the home only in poor families • Middle class women began working to organize and expand their rights • Italy in 1970s, women gained divorce, access to birth control information and abortion rights
Women in African History • Women in Africa are either: • Part of the intellectual • working class • overburdened • overworked mother • independent person
Women in African History (Cont’d) The Commander in Chief No woman is known in the history of the African reactions and responses to European power better than Nana YaaAsantewa of the Asante state Edweso in Ghana. She was the military leader of what is known as the ‘YaaAsantewa War’, which was the last war between the Asante and the British, and during which she became referred to by the British as the ‘Joan D’Arc of Africa’. Although she did not enter combat herself, the troops fought in her name and she gave orders and provided the troops with gun powder. The Woman Activist: Her feminism and democratic socialism lead to the creation of The Abeokuta women’s union (AWU) and later Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF), organizations and movements that aided Kuti to promote women’s rights to education, employment and to political participation. Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti YaaAsantewa
Women In Australia • 31 October 1827 - First Female Workers Riot occurred at the Parramatta Female Factory over conditions and food deprivation. • 21 March 1895 - The proclamation for women and equal right with men to vote, and to stand for election to the Colony's House of Assembly. • 23 September 1943 - First women elected to the federal parliament Dame Enid Lyons becomes a member of the House of Representatives for the United Australia Party, and the Australian Labor Party’s Dorothy Tangney takes a seat in the Senate representing West Australia
Women in America {The Weaker sex?} • Women were long considered naturally weaker than men • domestic chores were relegated to women, leaving "heavier" labor such as hunting and plowing to men • Formal education for girls historically has been secondary to that for boys
Women in America {The Weaker sex?} (Cont’d) • American women have had the right to vote since 1920 • Not until 1984 did a major party choose a woman to run for vice-president • Since 1960 more and more women with children have been in the work force
Work Cited • "WIC - Women's History in America." WIC - Women's History in America. Excerpted from Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia Copyright (c) 1994, 1995 Compton's NewMedia, Inc., 1995. Web. 01 Apr. 2013. <http://www.wic.org/misc/history.htm>. • "Timeline." Australian Women's History:. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Apr. 2013. • <http://www.womenshistory.com.au/timeline.asp>. Foucault, Michel. "7 African Female Icons That Shaped History | MsAfropolitan." 7 African Female Icons That Shaped History | MsAfropolitan. N.p., 16 Dec. 2010. Web. 01 Apr. 2013. <http://www.msafropolitan.com/2010/12/7-african-female-icons-that-shaped-history.html>. • Young, Steven M., and Jessica Young. "WOMEN IN EUROPEAN HISTORY." WOMEN IN EUROPEAN HISTORY. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Apr. 2013. <http://historysage.com/jcms/images/stories/Euro_PDFs/Women_in_European_History.pdf>.
