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Women's status is a complex issue and a hard-to-define subject. Around the world, women's status in each society and culture varies in different ways. In some societies, women's status improved gradually, while in other, it declined or remained unchanged. What affects women's status in a society? In what kind(s) of society, /is women's status /is/ among the highest? And why? Our research paper will focus on the relationship between women's status and the degree of stratification and wealth of a society.

First of all, I realized that there is no standard on how people define and judge women's status in a society. In my point of view, one of the judgements /that could be used for women's status is the "opinion of people/," which includes two areas - society and family. That is, how the public views females and how parents' treatment of the daughter compares to that of the son. (See group III for related variables used.) This group of variables is going to be compared with other groups of variables in different areas to test my hypotheses. Besides, there are another two groups of variables related to women's status that are selected to be used in the paper.

First, a woman's ability to survive, that is, what I refer to as financial independence for women nowadays, would affect

women's status in most societies. I believe it is more likely that people would have more respect /for/on/ productive persons than /for/independen/ce/ts/WHY? in most cultures. Therefore, I suppose women's contribution to be one of the factors affecting women's status. Second, /in a society in which castes and/or slaves exist, that is, /in/ a non-egalitarian society, women are more likely to have a lower social status. My point is, /in such a case/if/ the public believe/s that human beings are not equal, and thus/,/ they classify people into different classes, socially or politically. Then speaking of genders, there must be a higher class as well. Would that be male or female? I suppose it to be male. The reason is that/,/ males are physically advantage/d/ous/ relative to females, and therefore, males are traditionally valued over females in many cultures.

These two groups of variables are negatively correlated with each other. Generally speaking, it suggests, not with a strong correlation figure, that the more levels or classes /that exist in a society, the lower women's status is. For example, the negative correlation between womens status and social class,, and wealth, may suggest that a declining trend on women's status somewhat corresponds to a more complex degree of social stratification in a society. The correlations between these two groups of variables are positive and significant at their level of significance. However, marriage arrangement for females seems to be less related to the

money and density of population variables /than /as/ marriage arrangement for males/ is/. There is no strong correlation between marriage arrangement and wealth. Variables in this table are all positively related to womens status in general (inheritance of property of some economic value.) This result is expected, /and maybe it could be supportive /of how/on/ financial power of women increases their status in the society.

In any age, place, and time, women, actually all people, should always remember that, one's status might be determined by others, but it's also always needed to be earned, but not given. Women's status does vary around the world, but the key to improve it is universal. That is /the message is to start from improving oneself.