Overpopulation is not a word that
one would correspond with the word feminism, as many people would not see this
issue as a feminine issue. In China overpopulation has become a problem to the sustainability
of the world, and with the One Child Law being abolished in China, it is feared
that these high population numbers will again increase. Many journalist and feminist believe the only way to stop
overpopulation is the empowerment of
women in society which has been an issue in China over the years. Facts prove
that women who are empowered with a greater level of education and have more economic
influence and feel that they have more authority to make their own personal
decisions, which is why most designate to have fewer children. When a women possess
power over their own lives they have fewer children, yet the world is slow to
comprehend this simple idea.
China is a country dominated by males, and is a primarily a
male dominated workforce and society; this has always been the case in China until
the last 60 years. Still many women do not have access to much education, due
to the Cultural Traditions of China.
These traditions and ideas were instilled in many Chinese women who find it
hard to break away from these traditional habits to more modern ideas.
It is a proven fact that women
with higher education find it more important to have access to contraception
and birth control. In china, these ideas were once unimportant with the one
child law in place, but a law to restrict people to have one child is not a
law, but a privilege taken away by the government instead of this law in place,
the government should have educated the public on the implications of
overpopulation on a world scale. Nonetheless
even through the availability of contraceptives and birth control is very
important in order to stabilize population growth an education and a career for
women is something that will not call for a contraceptive in the first
place. This will allow women to be
active in the world force, and improving their lives from a professional view,
something that Chinese women have been working towards through the last 60
years. It is a fact that women who have
a thriving career have fewer children than women who do not. To sum it up, with
the empowerment of women from an educational point of view will allow women to
grow in the eyes of men and the Chinese society as well as have less time to
have more children.
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Empowering women will lead to a decrease in fertility rates,
especially with the one child law being abolished; China is now open to having
an increase in population. Procreation and fertility have always been labeled
as “women’s issues”. Which is a corrupt way of thinking as a male involvement
in the matter is hardly ever brought up especially in China where women are not
treated as equally as men. It is not women’s fertility which is the root cause
of overpopulation but a male’s lust and arrogance which is another issue in the
society of China altogether. With the idea of the traditional China in the
mists of many males as well as females, what starts out as more wealth, status
and land, eventually leads to more offspring to help sustain more things such
as the land. To bring patriarchy to a conclusion is not easily achievable, but
the empowerment of women is an issue that is more reasonably attainable. This can
be seen in many developed countries where women are indeed on par with men. In
addition the empowerment of moment is crucial in abolishing patriarchy and
overpopulation in not only China, but the whole world.
Education is the key to empowerment. The influence of
education on women opens up many pathways to stabilize population growth. Putting
more influence of the education of women in China should be the primary goal,
not only education, but education of contraceptives and birth control to drive
the idea of empowerment on a social and intellectual manner. In the future, I
hope that the idea of overpopulation will be stabilized as well the Empowerment of Women in China to be prominent in all feminist.
