OTHER RIZAL LITERARY WORKS
The patriarchal attitudes about women that the Spaniards brought
with them to the Philippines gradually influenced the local society.
Filipinos were raised in a religious and patriarchal educational
system that stressed the domestic value of women as men's
property during the Spanish era, when women were confined to
the home and their tasks were limited to housework and child
rearing.
EDUCATION BEFORE THE WOMEN OF MALOLOS
- Daughters of well-to-do households were taught reading,
writing, arithmetic, religion, and needlecraft, a perk not
experienced by Indio daughters.
EDUCATION AFTER THE WOMEN OF MALOLOS
- Compared to men, women are now more independent and
inclined to be more aggressive. Today's women can do
whatever they want since they are free, which was unlikely in
the past when women were confined to the home and
constantly on the lookout for them.
In his essay, SOBRE LA INDOLENCIA DE LOS FILIPINOS,
Rizal emphasized that the accusation of the Spaniards that
the Filipinos are lazy is a chronic disease but not a
hereditary one.
The patriarchal attitudes about women that the Spaniards brought
with them to the Philippines gradually influenced the local society.
Filipinos were raised in a religious and patriarchal educational
system that stressed the domestic value of women as men's
property during the Spanish era, when women were confined to
the home and their tasks were limited to housework and child
rearing.
EDUCATION BEFORE THE WOMEN OF MALOLOS
- Daughters of well-to-do households were taught reading,
writing, arithmetic, religion, and needlecraft, a perk not
experienced by Indio daughters.
EDUCATION AFTER THE WOMEN OF MALOLOS
- Compared to men, women are now more independent and
inclined to be more aggressive. Today's women can do
whatever they want since they are free, which was unlikely in
the past when women were confined to the home and
constantly on the lookout for them.
In his essay, SOBRE LA INDOLENCIA DE LOS FILIPINOS,
Rizal emphasized that the accusation of the Spaniards that
the Filipinos are lazy is a chronic disease but not a
hereditary one.
