GMAT 07套-Q3 考题|阅读|RC|博森|王可达
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GMAT 07套 – Q3-Q6
1In a 1984 book, Claire C. Robertson argued that, before colonialism, age was a more important indicator of status and authority than gender in Ghana and in Africa generally. 2British colonialism imposed European-style male-dominant notions upon more egalitarian local situations to the detriment of women generally, and gender became a defining characteristic that weakened women's power and authority.
1Subsequent research in Kenya convinced Robertson that she had overgeneralized about Africa. 2Before colonialism, gender was more salient in central Kenya than it was in Ghana, although age was still crucial in determining authority. 3In contrast with Ghana, where women had traded for hundreds of years and achieved legal majority (not unrelated phenomena), the evidence regarding central Kenya indicated that women were legal minors and were sometimes treated as male property, as were European women at that time. 4Factors like strong patrilinearity and patrilocality, as well as women's inferior land rights and lesser involvement in trade, made women more dependent on men than was generally the case in Ghana.
