Gender Relations In Asia3

This document discusses gender relations and the status of women in Asia, specifically China. It describes how Neo-Confucianism promoted the idea that women's roles were strictly as homemakers, wives, and bearers of sons to continue the family line. It also promoted practices like footbinding and confinement of women. Women had few legal rights and their lives were tightly controlled. The document includes a retelling of a Cinderella story from China that illustrates how women endured pain like footbinding to attract husbands and have better social standing.