Recently, a report named “the Situation of the Global Equality Gap between Men and Women in 2008” presented in the World Economic Forum aroused the public’s great interest and extensive discussion. According to the ranks listed by the report, Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Iceland have the first four smallest equality gap between men and women. While China, falls to number 57. Obviously, for a country with the largest population, 57 is far from satisfactory. Actually, the situation of inequality between men and women in China, though changed, was not really improved.
First of all, in areas of politics, women have not really been treated equally. Women in China are universally acknowledged as incompetent of being a leader or officer. The number of women being top leaders in China can be counted on the fingers of one’s hand. It’s far more difficult for a woman to climb up in politic area. Not only does she have to overcome the prejudice people have on her, but also have to be extremely outstanding to be authoritative. Even so, the public in China would not likely to accept women being dominant in politic area or acknowledged to the rule of women. The traditional conception still takes deep roots in the hearts of Chinese men. That’s also the reason why women have no saying in political circles.
Second, in areas of society, Chinese women received more discrimination than equality. There are many professions that dislike women, say, computer, military, electronics, etc. There also many professions that prefers women, say, teacher, nurse, secretary, etc. Such a division has long been existed and no one has ever has any question about it until in recent years when people began to talk about equality and liberation of women. Then, those two groups began to integrate with each other, however, the result is that we only see male nurses and male teachers are getting more and more popular and tend to take the bread out of the females in such areas. But, we can’t see that females win a place in the exclusive areas of males. Is it that women are not excellent enough to be competent for such jobs? No, actually women are equally outstanding as men. The fact is that those outstanding females, though being excellent, are normally left in colleges to be teachers. So, after taking a big circle, women are backing to the original place with the society’s proclamation that women are as equal as men. What a tragedy! The very truth lies in the discrimination the whole society has on women. The males would never have females to occupy their exclusive areas. Thus, women, suffering the oppression from males and society, at the same time, have to struggle to live under sexual harassments in the office.
Thus comes to the third point: family shackles and oppressions. In China, the traditional values of “Three Obedience and Four Mores” for women greatly influenced the whole nation for thousands of years. Thus, can it be easy to eliminate such a kind of opinion in several hundred years? Definitely can’t! Thus, when a woman in a new area tries to get rid of such shackles, she would suffer great oppressions. Women are considered to be stay at home to take good care of the kids and husband, and give support to husband if necessary. Such was and is the situation of Chinese women. A woman who has a successful career can hardly have a successful family because men would never ever yield to househusbands.
Besides, a man can hardly accept that his wife has higher salary or is more talented than him, which could be a humiliating thing for him. As a result, we can say that the shackles of family on women have never been released.
To conclude, women in China are far from having an equal footing with men, be it political areas, social areas, or family areas. The feudal ideology which existed for thousands of years is not so easy to eliminate. The fundamental improvements of women’s footing need not only the work of women themselves but also the attention and efforts of the males, the society and the nation.
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