In the article "Opening the Box: An International Asian Woman Scholar's Fight", Akiko Takeyama argues that the combination of language, accent prejudice, cultural adaptation, racism, and gender discrimination with legal residency issues makes the academic work of these transnational scholars face greater challenges. Takeyama states that "Since I was promoted to associate professor, I have served on the tenure and promotion review committee several times and witnessed the difference in the atmosphere and review process given to male and female candidates" (Takeyama 244). This reminds me of thinking in the matrilineal society, women's status was higher than that of men, because women mainly collected the living material, wild fruit (equivalent to money today); In patrilineal societies, men were superior to women because the tools had improved and they could hunt, and men were better at hunting, so men mainly obtained the prey (equivalent to money today). So is it fair to say that the inequality of economic ability causes the inequality of status and rights? In other words, those who have the strongest economic ability will have more power to speak, and those who have the strongest economic ability will have more power to speak. In fact, the inequality brought by economic ability cannot be separated from the countries, shareholders of small companies, and families.
References
Takeyama, Akiko. “Opening the Box: An International Asian Woman Scholar’s Fight”.
“Women & Men - Different But Equal? - The Meaningful Life Center”. Available from: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/671528994424484666/
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