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MRS and Ph.D.
What is holding men from Katharina in the play is Katharina’s personality. She is “curst and shrewd.” The article “The M.R.S. and the Ph. D.” by Stephanie Coontz published by New York Times states that women’s chance of marriage can be affected by their education. In the past, women had to choose between education and marriage. In the 1990s less-educated women were more likely to get married than educated women, but this is not the case today.
“An educated woman develops a “self-assertive, independent character” that made it “impossible to love, honor and obey” as a real wife should” said a physician in 1905. He stated that the more educated a woman is, the harder she find it to marry because of her confidence and independence. He also warned that middle-class men look for women who are less educated than themselves.
The play Taming of the Shrew both daughter of Baptisa were being educated but this didn’t help them to get marry. Bianca had suitors to educate her, but she doesn’t need to be educated in order to get married since she has several men trying to woo her. I don’t think education plays an important role in marriage. Today Society is different; couples marry each because they believe they should be together for their life and not because they want to find someone who has a matching or similar education.
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Remixing Ireland’s Gender Blend
An article found in New York Times title remixing Ireland’s Gender Blend summarized that how Ireland’s political party are filled with male and had introduced legislation to shift this around. Right now it is requiring the parties to have at least 30% of women in the parties. Men were dominating the society in Ireland.
The way I see how the article is related to Taming of the Shrew is men are more powerful and are the one making the decision. In act 2 scene 1 Petruchio is proposing to Katharina and what’s coming out of Katharina did not wanted to marry Petruchio “Call you me daughter? Now, I promise you You have show’d a tender fatherly regard, To wish me wed to one half lunatic.” Bapista whose Katharina’s father just agreed to Petruchio’s propose then they are married later. This showed women had no right to make their own decision, their life were controlled by the superior. Even though Katharina is in a rich class in the society, and an angry woman, she later become soft and has to pray to her husband Petruchio for food.
In the article even though the new legislation is passed regarding having more population of women in the political parties but in the society of Ireland, they remained unwelcome in the parties. “Yet male politicians have been reluctant to change family-unfriendly hours that discourage women from politics.” This still could prevent many women gaining the power over men in Ireland. So similarly in both society men tend to be the one dominating.
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