1. Women’s Status – East and West, Past and Present Group 9 徐灩 王姿靜 賴映伶 陳信璋 English Reading and Writing

2. Article Analysis  The story of an hour : restricted and released gain and loss  Lost lives of women : low position in old Chinese author’s hope

3. Comparison of Past and Present PastPresent Marriage Parents’ decision Be loyal to husband Preserve chastity Freedom to choose Actively claim to divorce Have custody of children Education Bar from higher education illiterate Receive better education

4. PastPresent Family Caring for the children & Doing the housework Obey husband and parents -in-law Strive for self- achievement Polity Can’t interfere in political event The right to vote Influence on public policy Economy Have limited control over personal property Support from husband Manage own earning

5. PastPresent Occupation Poorly-paid domestic servant Select qualified jobs Society Sexual discrimination Materializing the female Sexual equality Status Depend on father or husband’s status Change by means of hard work

6. Taiwanese social opinions  Women receive advanced education express what they think loudly have jobs to earn their own money  Ads over emphasize on female’s body, consider which as objects or merchandise

7.  Problems in workplace women account for only 17% of executive and management positions the average woman's income is only 79.5% of the average man's some enterprises think that men are superior to women in ability

8.  Women have to take on the labors of homemaking in addition to their jobs  The law of “allowance of parental leave without pay” women take care of children without being worried about financial problems improve rising women’s status and protection of women’s rights

9. In the past… obey their own father and husband deprived of higher education Nowadays… receive good education select their favorite careers have their own possessions impact the public policy

10. Comparison of Eastern and Western Common doing chores and rearing children married woman=Mrs.XXX (her husband’s last name)

11. Differences Unmarried women Western: the symbol of feminism and freedom Taiwan: a spinster Remarried woman Western: a common phenomenon Taiwan: endure the pressure

12. A notion that… Your daughter would finally belong to another man? (Mother spills water when a daughter gets married)

13. Self-reflection  how to solve this problem?  Cooperation instead of prejudice  Humble and respect attitude  say “no” to the fate determinism of gender