Women's Rights In The Han Dynasty

In the Han Dynasty, women were not considered as citizens and were viewed as being a lower level of power to men. Women living in the Han Dynasty were taught to be submissive, beginning with their father arranging a marriage for them. People believed that everyone was treated right and equally, but I believe that not everyone had equal rights especially between men and woman.
To start off, woman and young girls were not allowed to be educated instead, they were taught how to be good housewives by their mothers who basically spent most of their lives inside the house doing chores and making clothes. Women were expected to respect their fathers at a young age, their husband when they get married and their oldest sons when they were widowed. Women had no say in any family matters except those related to child raising and were put in a lower level in power and right than men.
Children were always on a strict scheduled since guys were learning how to work for the emperor and learning to work in tunnels, serve in the army, become a healer, work as man slaves and doctors.
While girls on the other hand, have to stay home, get no education until they’re 12 years old. But till that time comes all they can do is learn to sew, clean and cook for them to become the perfect house wives.
Men were always put above women when it came to statuses because everyone thought that men were stronger and had to have more responsibility instead of girls who were known to be weak and delicate. The worst part about men thing that women are weaker than them in the Han Dynasty is that they STILL think that they’re stronger than women even though it’s been over 400 years since the Han
Dynasty.

The mother had little to no say in who her daughter married, but rather the grandfather could override the father's decision if he did not approve of the family she would be marrying into. To encourage all fathers to marry their daughters off, there was a law created that increased the poll tax for unmarried women between the ages of 15 to 30. While men could divorce their wives for whatever reasons they had, it was very rare and difficult for a woman to be deciding to get a divorce. However, if the husband died, the woman could choose to get married again and to whom. Along with it being expected that a woman would marry, it was also counted upon that the wife would have children. They hoped for a male who would be able to carry on the family name. While the sons were given a portion of property, girls were excluded from this until they were to be married and then, as part of their dowry, they would receive some land. Ban Zhao, a woman known for her work called Lessons for Women, wrote about how men were strong and strict, and women, as their loyal wives, needed to respect them and obey. Just as Ban Zhao wrote, women belonged to men. From the time they were born they had the job of serving men, beginning with their father, then their husband and lastly their son. Although a son was taught to have great respect for his mother, he was viewed as the head of the house if anything were to happen to the father. Chinese women's main job was to be good wives and mothers, which included cooking, sewing and helping with farming. However, if a woman was to be widowed, she often had to support the family, and this meant woman would take up a job like weaving or selling items in a market. The only time when women were not viewed as being inferior in society was in the imperial family, especially the empress, who was allowed to give orders to males and publicly humiliate them. While women played a small role in public affairs and were viewed as subordinate to men throughout their life, Chinese women influenced society by bearing children and raising them to be smart and respectful citizens.