The women roles, capabilities and objectives continue to change drastically based on diverse changes on various roles of the Chinese society. This factor has led to the transformation of the different political eras. The attributes of the roles are based on marriages and family structures, childbirth to education levels, political activism and workforce participation, women in both China and Japan have contributed to the significant to the historical transformation that continue accelerate across the previous centuries (Edwards and Roces 2000). Majority of the individuals are exploring the actual evidence based on the changes due to the witnessing of the continuity based on the exciting factors of the social prospects compared to the simple read texts or the diverse documentaries watched.
There are various ways in which the history has illustrated the aspects and values that concern the Japanese and Chinese lifestyles. There are conspicuous aspects that elaborated the elements of the same investigations of the designs in the early nineteenth century women’s contribution and the analysis of the communist propaganda information. During the revolution period, the historical narration of the young women contributed to the growth of Japan and China. These renovation have had an apparent comparison on the snapshots in due time helping them in the examination of diverse sources that are instrumental in the addition of the value and they raised alarming question about the lives of women in understanding the development of their progress.
The issue of gender inequality in both countries continues to accelerate the issues in popular aspects, job location and their family life (Peterson, Hayhoe, and Lu 2001). The idea expressed in the old saying that states, “a good wife makes a wise mother”. Majority of the beliefs based on two cultures that set up continuing with the propelled beliefs related to the roles and responsibilities of women. Majority of the Japanese women realize easily about their ideas that they believe that they have the responsibility of the children interests and those that the society has placed their fundamental priorities. The devotions occur suitably, according to the number of children and the capabilities of their families. Many Chinese women have found satisfaction in many families has not mentioned the achievements of their children. They believe in the sense of fulfilling their roles as mothers and the managers of their households. In other households, women are particularly responsible for their family budgets and the arrival of the independent decisions related to their life-styles, careers and education (Edwards and Roces 2000). Research indicates that majority of the Chinese women who take up the social blames of the family members. Women were termed to have good relationships with their colleagues and they challenge their family aspects. This has contributed to the liberation of the 20th century, as the interaction of both men and women has been the main confinement of the family. Women are discriminated at their places of work, as men are not interacting freely at their work.
Women of the 20th century have raised the status of the society due to communism. They were elevated through the aspects of education and improved health care. This means that they do not suffer oppression from men. Their husbands stopped the intellectual women from working. The essence of the family unit is not a major concern of oppression for both women and men. The family unit was a major source of oppression for women in China and Japan. Men dominated all the spaces of life and they did not want women to protest against oppression. This issue was evident in the rural areas as women oppression means that they are derived from their top positions at their places of work (Peterson, Hayhoe, and Lu 2001). Women voice their frustrations on the issues that discriminate employment and other forms of expression. This was accelerated through the organizations formed by women and men, for example, All China Women Federation. Men harassed women through having other illegal affairs outside marriage. Women were denied the right of questioning men. The army soldiers alienated their wives in the rural regions as they enjoyed themselves having illicit affairs in the urban areas. Women expressed their frustrations through theory legal aspects (Edwards and Roces 2000). The new constitutional laws of the 1950s increased the divorce rates because of the awareness awakened by women. The new rights and orders of the family are stated clearly and this is reflected by the high rates of divorce witnessed in the 20th century especially in the urban areas.
Women have always had controversial topics about the issue in all the periods. However, women take all the responsibilities of giving birth, feeding and taking care of the whole family. It was noted that, “In many prehistoric cultures, women assumed a particular role. In the hunter-gathered society, women were generally gatherers of the plants products, while men hunted meat from large wild animals. The status of the women was not raised even though they participated in important roles of the society. Women were despised and ignored in many situations, for example, the equality on the education and health levels was not taken into consideration in the case of the working class women. In order to achieve more privileges, women formed the prior feminist movements that exploded between the years 1848 to 1920 (Peterson, Hayhoe, and Lu 2001). Three key waves were significant about the shortcomings encountered by both men and women. The first wave was developed between the 19th and early 20th century, the second between the years 1960 to 1980, while the last one began from 1990 to date. These three waves functioned differently and they prevailed by diverse reasons, leading to the improvement of the situation.
The Japanese women dominated the position that were their fathers, and eventually dominated their husbands position. In the book “The Waiting Years”, their families generally sold girls. Once their families acquired funds paid to them, the girls became subjects to slavery hood and they had no rights to sue their masters. It was deafening as the typical age of the girls ranged from thirteen to fifteen. The girls trained in domestic chores and the service duties that would satisfy their masters of the house. In the book, Tomo and the girl develop a relationship thought they have every reason to dislike and distrust them. It is evident that husbands treat their wives brutally in his relations with both the wife and the new house cleaner. The waiting years is subtle, cerebral works indulging us deeply into the lives of the women in the late 19th samurai families. The power of the good wife and a wise mother discourse elaborates the rights of generation among women in the early modern Japan to express their desires and assertions that are actively speaking through their subjects (Edwards and Roces 2000). Women who require exhibition of mythological posses maternal attributes such as the innate nurturing capacity. wise mothers were expected to give birth to sons who would contribute to the development of the nation, the daughters were expected to remain peripheral on the national narratives.
The family is a vital social unit in the entire society. The main family structure never survived the post-war changes occurring due to the civil wars. Instead, a basic paradigm of the relationship has been developed between the main and the subdivisions of the subdivisions within the large associations in the corporate and commercial organization in Japan. The story indicated the responsibilities of women in Japan. Women in both china and Japan failed to appreciate the rights for their subjective desires in the 19th century. This period was marked by traditions concluding that between the man’s and women are the same as those occurring recently. This has been fulfilled through the acceptance of men in the current society to pick up concubines even though it is concealed as a secret that was identified as long as an individual provided the required support to their families.
The awareness of the western values begins with the self-conception among women as they are supposed feel the pleasure of freedom and liberation. The institutions of marriage women demanded for love and intimacy as it was in accordance to their families based on the western values. The exposure of women to books, films and other western materials propelled their attention to family affairs and women began demanding for change. The changes were sought in the relationships concerning husbands and wives as the two parties advocated for equal rights. In this awareness, their husbands were not willing to let go their cultural values and norms, heightening the conflict within the families an issue that resulted to divorce.
The Chinese and Japanese women have had the right to life compared to the normal length. This has been perceived from the courtesy of benefiting themselves from the oppression of men and equal rights within their families. Women have had the chance of living up to the right to life based within the family. Women have lived in good health and nourishment that has been due to the result of the finalization of communism. They failed in ability due the failure to avoid unnecessary pains (Edwards and Roces 2000). This is because of the zeal they had for the equality in the family led to the divorce and they ended up being harassed. The women in China and Japan had the success of taking opportunities based on their education levels and mode of thinking. This was experienced in many chances that developed because of education empowerment in the 20th century. The formation of the groups has participated in leadership, employment and the social changes in two countries. Women have excelled in the determination of an individual’s life. This is witnessed in many ways that some of them struggle to raise their children as single mothers without the support from men. Women in china and Japan succeeded in playing games for fun and seeking leisure (Peterson, Hayhoe, and Lu 2001). This was evident in the efforts of seeking materials that induce life and happiness in their lives.
References
Edwards, L. P., & Roces, M. (2000). Women in Asia: Tradition, modernity, and globalisation. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Peterson, G., Hayhoe, R., & Lu, Y. (2001). Education, culture, and identity in twentieth-century China. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
