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. 5However, since age apparently remained
the overriding principle of social organization in central Kenya, some senior
women had much authority. 6Thus,
Robertson revised her hypothesis somewhat, arguing that in determining
authority in precolonial Africa age was a primary principle that superseded
gender to varying degrees depending on the situation.
Q5
A) Greater land rights and greater involvement in trade made women in precolonial Ghana less dependent on men than were European women at that time.
B) Colonialism had a greater impact on the status and authority of Ghanaian women than on Kenyan women.
C) Colonialism had less of an impact on the status and authority of Ghanaian women that it had on the status and authority of other African women.
D) The relative independence of Ghanaian women prior to colonialism was unique in Africa.
E) Before colonialism, the status and authority of Ghanaian women was similar to that of Kenyan women.
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