Dbq Essay

               According to the documents provided women had faced governmental, monetary, and societal obstacles; women had to struggle for political participation, they faced economic exploitation due to globalization, however feminist ideas have challenged traditional male perspective of women.
          In the documents 2, 4, 7, and 8 are discussing the governmental problems for women. In documents 2 it states the fact that men and women will never have equal rights, men will be superior over women. This statement continues on to the next documents due to the fact that in document 4 abortion is decided by men not giving a women a right to make it from the Chinese government who were men enforcing the one child per family law. As seen in document 8 women were known to be caretakers and had no political power, as well as no source of income. This illustration is from a women’s point of view the “Darfur refugees”, according to them Darfur women needed to stay at home because, the government does not give them the opportunity to create a better future for their families as well as; they don’t have the sufficient resources to participate in public affairs. Documents 4, 7, and 8 points out that women had restrictions about having children, because they will go against the law if they don’t obey it. They were only permitted one child and the women were the caretaker of the family.
      In the documents 6, 8 it addresses the monetary difficulties women had, in document 6 it gives a gender generalization of how women had no equal pay and how not many job opportunities were there for women unlike there were for men. Even though there were jobs for women they would be badly paid and completely unprotected. In document 8 it states that the government did not give them an opportunity to have a better future for their families. They were not given any source of income and as stated in document 6 they also had no social rights.
        According to document 1 woman were now able to receive education unlike how before they were only considered caretakers. It is a government point of view that they now realize it is better to have educated women. They would like to see women at a level of advancement where she can take her own right. Women were now granted the right to vote. In document 5 it shows how women were now demanding equality they don’t want to be forced to daily approval. Women don’t their lives to be controlled by men. As in document 1 and 6 women were now taking a stand to have more rights and more equality as men. To prove them that not only men played a role in society but so do women. 
               An additional document to support these ideas could be an interview of a male worker explaining how it feels working with women. To explain their capability in the working field and how they are improving their society. Therefore explaining how women can not only be caretakers but also educated women in society having their rights and opinion. Another additional document could be an interview also of a women talking about how them having more rights has made an impact in their lives and how they don’t have to be that dependent on men. 
        In the documents provided it gives a generalization of how women had to struggle for political participation, they faced economic exploitation due to globalization, however feminist ideas have challenged traditional male perspective of women. Women had to face many governmental, monetary, and societal challenges. Even though their challenges women were soon able to gain rights.