Chinese women live a little bit more freely then Indian women. In China there is an unwritten law of code which controls the behavior of women there. It is something that all the women just did and didn't really protest against. This code consisted of three obediences and four virtues. The obediences were that they obey their own father before marriage, and their husband after marriage, and their son after her husbands death. Which really pretty much means that she is under the influence of men all of her life and at no point in her life is she every her own person.

The four virtues were she has to be chaste, her conversations and way of life must be courteous and she must carry herself graceful not extravagant. Her lifestyle and free time must be spent doing needlework, cooking, cleaning, and beautifying the home. Something that really shocked me about this code of conduct for women was that one of the authors of these codes was a highly educated woman, Ban Tso, doesn't follow this code herself. Her father doesn't agree with her choice not to follow the code, but concludes that because she is so educated she should make her own decision. The men that come and go throughout the Chinese woman's life have the right to decide whether or not their so called "property" (which is the wife, daughter or mother) is to follow the code of conduct or not. About 99.9% of the time the women are forced to follow it.

To my surprise women in India in the past were highly honored and if they committed suicide after the death of their husband. And as a result China has many, many, statues and monuments of women who have killed themselves. The reason for this is that after a wife committed suicide no one would be able to take their place. She was considered an irreplaceable figure. In my personal opinion i highly disagree with that because if they are so "irreplaceable" then why aren't they allowed to make their own choices, and my research has shown me that women are not respected in China, until after they have committed suicide.