Financial Autonomy Quotes
There was a movement to pay married women who were housewives to compensate them for the time they spend in, if nothing else, educating and bringing up male children who were educated. It was they who transmitted the values and many experts agree have more to do with a child’s education than the schools do. So this important and critical societal task was not remunerated as were all others. At the time, even many of the feminists held the view that society would be better off if women were homemakers and brought up the children. However, without any pay (and at the time few or no rights to a husbands earnings of assets) she was bound to be a second class citizen. That idea of housewife compensation obtained almost no support, and the only way for women to gain some kind of position and equality was to work outside the home—the condition that became the norm about 30 years after this was written.
Many of the most liberated and accomplished women in history have been from wealthy families. And yet with all their money they could only go so far. They needed an entire movement of women of all classes—and men to finally attain suffrage and the progress made thus far. Wealthy women were very active, alongside with working and middle class women in most of the demonstrations and campaigns for women’s rights.
Alibaba—the largest e-commerce company in the world, larger than Amazon.com and eBay put together--had hundreds of millions of on-line Chinese buyers and hundreds of thousands of Chinese retailers. A huge proportion of Chinese retail sales go through Alibaba which facilitates a very large part of the Chinese economy.
