As every Chinese schoolchild learns in history class, the Communists rescued peasant daughters from urban brothels and ushered cloistered wives into factories, liberating them from the oppression of Confucian patriarchy and imperialist threat. While the Communist revolution brought women more job opportunities, it also made their interests subordinate to collective goals. Most of their jobs had limitations and Women were shunted to collective neighborhood workshops with meager pay and dismal working conditions, while men were more commonly employed in comfortable big-industry and state-enterprise jobs. Also women routinely performed physically demanding jobs but earned less than men, since the lighter, most valued tasks involving large animals or machinery were usually reserved for men. ( In simple terms their lives we terrible to begin with and to deal with oppression, but now they are in a slightly better situation but nonetheless bad )