Abstract:
This research article there are 2 objectives in the study: 1. To study the factors that led to the evolution of leading women in the reign of King Rama VI - King Rama VII 2. To study the role of leading women towards modern society in the reign of King Rama VI - King Rama VII. The result of the country reform in the reign of King Rama V was the change of Siam to modernity., which has affected on Thai women by starting from high-class women. Actually the people in the royal court and have a close relationship with the king and a group of people who meet the modernization policy. There is a learning of western culture in cultural change, including dress, association, learning about hospitality and English education in the reign of King Rama VI. Those causes were leading women who are high-class, close to the King, and have a role in evolving into modern times, including the royal mother, the fiancé, the wife and the family. When entering the reign of King Rama VII is the time, when women's education reform has progressed there, are women, both high class women and middle class women. Have the opportunity to study in higher education Therefore began to increase the occupation of women, such as lawyers, editors, etc. Political changes and the economic downturn had made the causing middle-class women who are in the family, business or trade and women of the upper class who have to adapt from the consequences of changing the regime with lower income. They began to divide into a trading business especially the opening of food and snack shops which is what women have the aptitude and have been trained in the past.
