Chapter 10 of Henry Tischler's Sociology text is full of information about Gender Stratification. Tischler does an excellent job informing students about the treatment of women throughout history. He gives many examples of different cultures and religions and their views of women and how they were to be treated. One of these examples were lines written by Fu Hsuan of China in the 3rd century:
<Tab/>" They (boys) are treated like gods as soon as they are born.... But a girl is reared without joy or love, and no one in her family really cares for her.... And no one sheds…
