has there been a change in the traditional role of women im the present day? explain with an example.
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The status of women in India has been subject to many changes over the span of recorded Indian history.[4] Their position in society deteriorated early in India's ancient period, especially in the Indo-Aryan speaking regions,[a][5][b][6][c][7] and their subordination continued to be reified well into India's early modern period.[d][8] Practises such as female infanticide, dowry, child marriage and the taboo on widow remarriage, have had a long duration in India, and have proved difficult to root out, especially in caste Hindu society in northern India
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The contribution of women to a society's smooth transition from preliterate to literate, from a relatively autonomous community to a member of a nation enmeshed in a world economy, has received too little attention from social scientists and policy makers. When the economy and political organization of a society change, families who can adjust to the new conditions will fare the best. Inasmuch as women the world over are the primary caretakers of young children, they play an important role in facilitating or hindering changes in family life.
The introduction of a cash economy and occupations that require reading and writing require schools equipped to teach these skills. Throughout the Third World, schools are being introduced. Within the next decade it will become difficult, if not impossible, to find a society where the development of schooled and unschooled children can be compared.
How difficult is it for families to adjust to these new institutions? There are two major consequences that affect women - the loss of child labor and the need to make changes to help children master new skills. Working in a village in Kenya that is undergoing rapid social change, I have been able to observe the consequences of the introduction of schools and some of the adjustments women have made.
Coping with change is not new to the Bantu women of sub-Saharan Africa. Historians estimate that their forebears set out from the Niger River delta around the beginning of the Christian era and over a period of 2,000 years colonized south and east Africa, reaching Mt. Kenya around 1500 A.D. It was the policy of these colonists to arrange marriages of their women to the local inhabitants of the land they coveted. The women socialized their small children, teaching them the Bantu language and traditions, including agricultural practices. At the same time, however, as wives, the Bantu adjusted to the customs of their husbands.
In Kenyan Bantu communities, women traditionally have had the major responsibility for agricultural work, being responsible for raising the food for their children. Traditionally men cleared the land and built fences to protect it, but until the introduction of cash crops, left most of the preparation of the soil - planting, weeding, and harvesting - to the women and children. Men were responsible for the supervision and care of all livestock.
In the years following British colonization the workload of Kikuyu women increased until it was one of the heaviest of all women in the Third World. With the introduction of taxation by the British colonists, it became essential for men to earn wages. "Pax Brittanica" and land demarcation put an end to the acquisition of new land. With no effective contraception and large families, with growing dependence on products of the industrial world, the need for cash continued to increase. As men found jobs in the towns and cities, women were left to take care of all farm work, including the tending of the livestock and cash crops.