Thematic Outline for Gender Relations Consider the Following: Inheritance, Rituals, Divorce, Marriage (Age), Suffrage, Leadership, Profession, Education, Religion (missionaries, deities, authority), Sexuality

8000 – 600 CE 600 – 1450 CE 1450-1750 CE 1750 – 1914 CE 1914 - Present East Asia China- patriarchal society, China- Had growing number Japan- women live with Women have little freedom, Women able to gain emperor can have more than of infanticide if child was increased restrictions on society corrupted because of prestigious jobs, although 1 wife. female. Males regarded as daily lives, obey husband or Opium Trade leads to war remain inferior to men. Can Matrilineal before Shang lucky-Primo Geniture. face death. with British Empire in Divorce and marry again. Dynasty. Wives and young girls had Women educated at home. Canton, Macau Expected to provide sons. foot binding. Known as Warring Period Western Europe Rome-Pater Familias- Patriarchal society but Queen mothers ran royal Industrial Revolution- Poor Men and Women seem Centered around eldest women could get power if house, kept relations with women who had taken almost equal-voting rights, Male. Women have were upper class aristocrats foreign nations and care of home/worked job interviews, and day-to- influence on family: or monarchs/member of controlled marriage alliance. in fields shifted to day rights. Can choose when supervising family business royal family. Exploration & colonization factories/sweatshops. to get married and not Greece-Patricians, ensures spread of More and more dependable on family to Plebeians, Slaves-had say in Spanish/Portuguese children working now, make choices. Well religious rituals, married language, culture, people moving to Educated- most prominent early and virgin till marriage Catholicism cities, immigrants o place for women US, Australia Eastern Europe NO INFORMATION Women treated as inferior to Russia- nobles adopt Emancipation of Serfs in Women still subordinate to men, but could have say in Western European culture 1861 brings massive men; however, both are family life. Both men and thru language (some spoke changes; Russia modernizes, required to work. Orthodox women work, mostly French) and dressing style, but changed precedent of Church doesn’t encourage agricultural style. Serfdom= but ordinary peoples remain tsars because of unrest divorce. Both males and work for protection the same. among lower class. females educated. South Asia Women gained little rights Women remain subordinate Mughal outlaw Sati, British try to outlaw both Still extremely patriarchal as “needed supervision” to men. Caste system encourage widows to Sati and Caste System, still but women can work + have from males decides each person’s place remarry, Hindu-Muslim try both illegally continued. good jobs, expected to Patriarchal- Sati in society. Males educated if for better relations. Violence between Hindu provide sons. Not as Couldn’t own property Brahmin, women not Women=Aristocrats, able to and Muslims also persist. auspicious as male babies educated, worked at home. supply income (all castes) Boys + few girls educated Latin America No clear-cut indications; Aztec/Inca ruled. Women Changes brought by Social inequalities persist in Rise of Feminism, more however, most likely could become priestess or Europeans, Coloumbian spite of laws against it, than just legal equality and patriarchal society based on work under the royal family. Exchange, slavery People of mixed race, right to vote (cultural and Latin American history. Human Sacrifice common encouraged, European Indians, blacks victims of economical), Cuban for gods. disease diminish Aztec and informal prejudice, slavery government limits rights of Incan culture and peoples. continued into 19th Century women: Communism Middle East Men were hunters, women Women initially able to Harems-complex social Merchants contribute to Laws still very religious were food gatherers. Ruled conduct businesses and hold network, originally non- expanding economy based (Shari a) but some women by elite, rulers, priests, and certain jobs (Mohammad’s Islamic slaves/prisoners, on trade with Europeans, can have businesses, males patriarchal society. Women Wife), Women don’t need to mothers had influence if son South Asians and East can have up to 4 wives if can gain power in courts, veil themselves, divorce is represented in court-became Asians they can provide substantial priestesses, scribes, small not tolerated members of sultan’s lifestyle for each business extended family