In Southeast Asia the general status of women was that: D) Woman had greater equality in early southeast Asia that elsewhere in Asia. This is thought to be due to several factors including the fact that a daughter was not considered a financial burden because the practice of Bride price was widespread in that area and that kinship was traced both through ones mother and father. Also because women had prominent roles in indigenous rites, their labor was essential to the agriculture of that area and because they were primarily running local markets.
