Women's Rights and Social Campaigns Flashcards
What did Mao say about the importance of women?
“women hold up half the sky”
When was the Marriage Law passed?
1950
What did the marriage law entail? And laws following this?
Gave women the same legal rights as men, banned customs such as buying brides and arranged marriages.
Gave women the right to equal pay, maternity benefits and work-based child care
Which article of the constitution enshrined women’s rights?
Article 48- “… the state protects the rights and interests of women”
What was the view of a woman’s role in the 1950s?
Women still had to do ‘women’s work’ such as housework
What were the roles of the danwei? (8 pt)
- explaining and popularising decrees
- organising mass meetings
- arbitrated in neighbourhood quarrels
- undertook fire prevention
- rubbish collection
- distributed welfare to the needy
- organised local recreation activities
- organise cleanliness drives
What did the CCP do to improve public health? (5 pt)
- mass inoculations, which dropped levels of cholera, smallpox and typhus
- educational campaigns discouraging spitting, reducing tuberculosis
- prevented urinating in public, thus improving sanitation
- closed brothels and trained prostitutes fro other work to prevent STD spread
- Opium addicts were rehabilitated
What did Maurice Meisner say about the improvements made in the early years of the PRC?
“The new regime was authoritarian and often repressive, but the cities were governed honestly and efficiently for the first time in modern Chinese history”
What did John King Fairbank say of the CCP’s social reforms?
“Here was a dedicated government that really cleaned things up- not only the drains and streets but also the beggars, prostitutes and petty criminals, all of whom were rounded up for reconditioning”
Joseph W Esherick on the CCP’s order:
“the PRC ushered in a better world in party, because the CCP brought order and discipline to their environment”
