The democratic movement in Asia . erself. There is some seclusion, but it isthat of the convent, not that of the purdahwhich other Oriental women know. The Filipinowoman holds the family purse, but she doesmore than that: she is the business agent ofthe family. She keeps the shop, holds the prop-erty, and carries to a very large degree the businessresponsibility of the Islands. Nowhere else in theOrient will one find a woman lawyer practicingat the bar and writing suffrage articles for thedaily papers. One cannot account for the Filipinowoman on the ground of the racial superiorityof the Malay
The democratic movement in Asia . erself. There is some seclusion, but it isthat of the convent, not that of the purdahwhich other Oriental women know. The Filipinowoman holds the family purse, but she doesmore than that: she is the business agent ofthe family. She keeps the shop, holds the prop-erty, and carries to a very large degree the businessresponsibility of the Islands. Nowhere else in theOrient will one find a woman lawyer practicingat the bar and writing suffrage articles for thedaily papers. One cannot account for the Filipinowoman on the ground of the racial superiorityof the Malay. Ordinarily the Malay is theweakest blood in the Orient, the least entrance of the United States into theIslands brought increased liberty and freedom,but the only way to explain the unique placewhich the Filipino woman occupies in the Eastis to recognize that for centuries before theAmerican occupation the people were beingtaught a Christian valuation of womanhood. At the risk of making an odious comparison[144]. THIS LITTLE GIRL WAS SOLD BYHER MOTHER INTO SLAVERY. AFTERTHE INITIAL PAYMENT HAD BEENMADE THE FATHER DISCOVERED THEFATE IN PROSPECT FOR THE CHILD,REPAID THE MONEY, AND OBTAINEDPOSSESSION OF HIS DAUGHTER,WHOM HE PLACED IN A MISSIONSCHOOL. THE EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN I should say that the status of Oriental womenis to be graded in the following order: Filipino,Japanese, Chinese, Malay, and Indian. At thesame time one must remember that the wordIndian is too loose a term to apply to the womenof India. The Parsee woman, for example, al-though she represents an infinitesimal fraction ofthe Indian sisterhood, has long held a positionquite equal to that of the Filipino, and possiblyeven superior to it. One must speak with caution of a femininerebellion outside of the Philippines and we can notice how in China women arebeginning to come into their own. Althoughthe indemnity funds were first applied exclusivelyto boys, three years ago a group of girls
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