Jeh-hang Lai, a research fellow at Academia Sinica's Sun Yat-sen Institute for Social Sciences and Philosophy, observes that even in the Han (206 BC - 220 AD) and Tang (618-907 AD) dynasties, long after patriarchal society was established in China, women not only "showed their face in public," they suffered no social stigma if they divorced and remarried.
中研院中山人文社會科學研究所研究員賴澤涵指出，中國父系社會建立之後，後來的漢、唐，婦女不僅「拋頭露臉」，社會對他們離婚、再嫁也都不以異樣眼光視之。