Over the past century women’s rights has changed tremendously in various factors like globalization, poverty, economics, health, violence, sexual exploitation, and culture. But, today one of the most influential existing problems that a women experience is gender inequality. In Amy Tan’s award-winning novel, The Joy Luck Club, the role of Asian women is to stay inferior to men. Research shows that women’s right issue was a major problem in China, as well as many different parts of the world. Amy Tan portrays this symbolic issue in the novel The Joy Luck Club. According to Greenhaven Press’s Women’s Issue in Joy Luck Club, Chinese women entering the workforce have a high unemployment rate. In addition, “In 2003, 1.1 billion workers in the
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According to “Making Asian Women’s Visible: The Joy Luck Club” article, Asian women face consequences if they don’t follow rules and expectations. “In the Chinese society, women are usually punished physically or emotionally through various factors if they try to overcome the mindset of “men being superior to women in all circumstances” (Kim 1). Similarly, in accordance to the author’s claim of penalization, Amy Tan described in the novel how the first-generation mother’s go through emotional and physical disturbances for their second-generation daughters to have a “better life” in America. In the novel, one of the major characters Lindo Jong was forced to marry someone, not for love, but for family and honor. She was supposed to serve for her new husband and his entire family. And, while “Lindo had not disrupted anything, she was punished by her mother-in-law for not bearing their family a child, even though the husband had claimed to have “planted the seed” multiple times in Lindo” (Tan, 58). The author shows how women in Chinese society are degraded and expected to be seen inferior to men. This methodology of abuse against Chinese women, when they don’t stay reserved and mind their own business, has decreased over the past year, but a small percentage still exists
According to “Making Asian Women’s Visible: The Joy Luck Club” article, Asian women face consequences if they don’t follow rules and expectations. “In the Chinese society, women are usually punished physically or emotionally through various factors if they try to overcome the mindset of “men being superior to women in all circumstances” (Kim 1). Similarly, in accordance to the author’s claim of penalization, Amy Tan described in the novel how the first-generation mother’s go through emotional and physical disturbances for their second-generation daughters to have a “better life” in America. In the novel, one of the major characters Lindo Jong was forced to marry someone, not for love, but for family and honor. She was supposed to serve for her new husband and his entire family. And, while “Lindo had not disrupted anything, she was punished by her mother-in-law for not bearing their family a child, even though the husband had claimed to have “planted the seed” multiple times in Lindo” (Tan, 58). The author shows how women in Chinese society are degraded and expected to be seen inferior to men. This methodology of abuse against Chinese women, when they don’t stay reserved and mind their own business, has decreased over the past year, but a small percentage still exists