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Many times through out history women have played different roles in different civilizations. For instance Egypt and China, two different civilizations in which their women held many different political positions. For instance in China women seemed to be suppressed and were viewed as low as peasants if not even lower, while in Egypt it is a well known fact that women could be kings.
Chinese women were seen as an unwanted possession. Fathers and families did not want to have daughters it was every mans dream to have a son. The only thing that was valued was that you could have your daughter or daughters married off to other families to open up new political relations. Women were to obey all men in their lives… for instance their husbands, the man down the street, or even there own son. The ranking in a family was based solely around the male figure. So if women held little if any authority in their own household it should be safe to say that there is little chance that they......

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