Women’s Status

1. Women’s Status East and West, Past and Present The Report of Group 7

2. Text Analysis • The Summery of The Story of an Hour • emotional changes • grief to her at first ;anticipation to her at last. • shocked to dead. • The Analysis of The Story of an Hour • ionic ending • tragic product of marriage

3. Text Analysis • The Summery of Lost Lives of Women • Amy Tan’s female relatives • terrible fate • Nunu Aiyi: lucky… • Jyou Ma: her appearance… • Doomma: remarried… suicide • Amy’s grandmother: raped… suicide

4. Topic Discussion-the Chinese • The accent China • The Tang Dynasty • The Song and Ming Dynasty

5. Topic Discussion-the West In ancient west world In the middle Ages The age of Enlightenment In about 19 century Chinese society is changing

6. Taiwanese Social Opinions Mrs. Lee: Social equality for us are not a big problem. However, the discrimination against women still exists. Mr. Quo: Men’s superiority on physiology. Women have motherhood which is an obstacle toward their careers.

7. Taiwanese Social Opinions Mrs. Lin: Some men can not stand his wife’s social status higher than their own. Mrs. Wang: both of two genders have their own nature roles to follow. Miss Cheng: I think the woman status in Taiwanese society changes a lot.

8. Taiwanese Social Opinions The Analysis of the Interview Women’s status in Taiwanese society is equal to men. Half of women even think that they don’t suffer any unfairness. Men nowadays tend to show more respect to women. However, Taiwanese women can still feel the subtlety of inequality does exist, especially on job market.

9. Differences Between East and West • The answers on the website • females tutors only • houses only rent to female • not open about their relationships, especially with the opposite sex.

10. Self-Reflection • In our society, it still exists gender inequality. • We still have to fight against the unreasonable inequality between genders.