Compare and contrast the status of women in Tang and Song China with the status of women in two other East Asian societies of your choice. What are the similarities and what are the differences, and why?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: In Tang and Song societies female children were less wanted because they couldn't carry out work in fields, had tradition of foot binding that represented submissiveness and self-discipline, and only few women were engaged in politics versus in Japanese and Vietnam socities wives were able to own property/divorce and had more heroic women. The main similarity was that men were still dominant.
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