7.1. Material Conditions: Why You Can’t Eliminate Sexism Just by Eliminating Sexism
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Women's Rights in China
With matrilocal residence and matrilonial inheritance, that equates to much more power for women. In the 19 seventies, anthropologist norma diamond noticed that in those areas of china where you had frequent political upheavals and natural disasters resulting in frequent population movement, patro locality was much less dominant. Many women remained in their home villages, and their husbands sometimes moved in with their mother's family. Women are able to bring home money to support their birth parents, and they 're able to have more autonomy and independence from their husbands family. The surplus of men has increased competition for brides, meaning families must buy ever more expensive housing to insure their sons can marry
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