The Oppression Of Women

The idea from the quotation above is often used to put women in the lower position than men that lead to the ‘division of labor’ with women having responsibility for nurturing their family and men being the economic providers of the household.
According to Burke and Stets (2001: 32), people put men as a central authority in the social structure and community, even in this modern era. Women are set in an unjustified position in the social life. It happens because the community is convinced by the stigma that men are responsible for leadership of the social institutions. This stigma makes them have a strong and absolute influence. This tradition makes the roles of women are drowned and not developed well. Women tend to accept any decision given to them and sometimes they have to sacrifice their own rights. …show more content…
For example, in Japanese traditional culture, there are three ideologies which form the role of women. These ideologies are Confucianism, Buddhism, Samurai which is based on feudalism. Confucianism delivered the idea that women have to obey their father as a daughter, her husband as a wife, and her son as an aged mother. Buddhism stressed that salvation is impossible for woman. The Samurai believed that a woman should look upon her husband as if he were heaven itself. These ideologies were highly discriminatory towards