Masculinity and Femininity Sample Clauses

Masculinity and Femininity. The masculinity is one of the important characters of China, it is men who dominate society. There are several reasons can be applied to explain this fact, including nature of human and historical elements. Actually, masculinity is still the main trend of the world, men generally dominate the world. The first reason is that man are physically stronger and psychologically rational, their body allow them to work much more than women and think more objectively than ladies. As it is known that, in ancient time, heavy manual labor was only suitable for men, including farm work, doing business and military service, etc. The less developed one nation is, the more masculinity it have, this rule is still true for today. When women lost the initiative right of production, then they lost the economic independence, further they lost more than that. This principal, to some extent, could explain why Norway has such low level of masculinity while China has a very high level. As you know, China is still a big developing country, most of the work require a large portion of physically strong men. On another hand, men are more suitable in doing economy, management and political affairs because they behave more rationally and calmly. Women, generally, perform no so good as men especially dealing with emergent situations. The two aspects consist of the first reason (nature of human) why masculinity is the dominate the social structure of China or even the world. The second reason is the historical factor. As mentioned above, China had been feudal society and influenced by Confucianism for more than 2400 years. In the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ thought, there are special items regulating women’s behaviors and thoughts. The most famous is the so called “Thethreeobediencesandthefourvirtues”. It forced women to obey their father before marriage, obey their husband after the wedding and obey their son if their husband died. Also, the first “virtue” is that women should have good morality, they must be faithful to their husband, keep their duty and to preserve their purity. The second one is their behavior and wearing, ladies should behave elegantly and politely, and their dress should not be frivolous casually. The third “virtue” is their ways of speaking, which means they should know what could be said and what should not be talked. The last is that women need to know how to keep the house tidy, how to deal with husband, son and the parents in law. These rules or principals restraint women’s right...