All throughout history, women have played many different roles from helping to lead civilizations to just being slaves to men. The women that lived in Rome were better off than women that lived in China because they had more legal rights in marriage and didn’t have as strict of social standards. The women that lived in Rome had legal rights when it came to marriage. In Ancient Rome, married women had a share of all possessions and sacred rights that their husband had. Women had power in their marriages and weren’t just slaves to their husband. A woman is allowed to resist an arranged marriage if the husband that is picked out for her is unworthy in his actions or is infamous in character. This shows that women had somewhat of a say in
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Women needed to have certain qualifications to be considered womanly. “A woman (ought to) have four qualifications: (1) womanly virtue; (2) womanly words; (3) womanly bearing; and (4) womanly work.” This shows that women had certain values that they had to follow. The women were meant to hold themselves to these standards because they were believed to be the greatest virtues a woman could have. The women in China and Rome played very similar roles. The women in Rome though were not held to as high of a standard as the women in China though. I believe that this means that the women in Rome probably lived better lives because they did not have to live up to all of the standards that the Chinese women had to live up to. Women’s role is always developing through history. This is shown by tombstone inscriptions that were found in Rome dating back from the second century B.C.E. to the third century C.E. The inscriptions were written by the husbands of the deceased women. The inscriptions contain the same general message that the women were there to please their husband and to have children. “When I was alive I pleased my husband as his first and dearest wife…” The messages become more thought out and the appreciation for women seems to grow as history
Women needed to have certain qualifications to be considered womanly. “A woman (ought to) have four qualifications: (1) womanly virtue; (2) womanly words; (3) womanly bearing; and (4) womanly work.” This shows that women had certain values that they had to follow. The women were meant to hold themselves to these standards because they were believed to be the greatest virtues a woman could have. The women in China and Rome played very similar roles. The women in Rome though were not held to as high of a standard as the women in China though. I believe that this means that the women in Rome probably lived better lives because they did not have to live up to all of the standards that the Chinese women had to live up to. Women’s role is always developing through history. This is shown by tombstone inscriptions that were found in Rome dating back from the second century B.C.E. to the third century C.E. The inscriptions were written by the husbands of the deceased women. The inscriptions contain the same general message that the women were there to please their husband and to have children. “When I was alive I pleased my husband as his first and dearest wife…” The messages become more thought out and the appreciation for women seems to grow as history