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3. The status and role of women in modern society

Women always had to struggle for their rights. Since ancient times there was a thought that woman had to devote all her time to her family, that she is not created for mental work, that she must only learn how to keep the house and how to be the keeper of the house.

Unfortunately we must admit the fact that even nowadays since childhood young girls are taught they should be passive and dependent creatures. Some girls think that they have only four occupations open for them – nurse, secretary, teacher, or mother. That only duties they have is to wash, cook and clean.

This discrimination continues afterwards when women can’t receive the same education and can’t get a job she wants. Unfortunately girls are being brainwashed into accepting that men and women have very different roles to play in society, and into believing that they have these different roles because each is more suited by nature to the one or the other.

Because of all these prejudices a woman that is bright enough, ambitious enough, has a good idea and wants to make it work, still it will very hard for her to find a job because in the working world women come a distant second to men. In the United States and Japan for example, women enjoy a higher rate of employment than men. And in these countries the differential between men and women’s wages are very great. According to the International Organization lower wages for women are common in most countries, irrespective to the level of economic development.

Everywhere in the world women have found cultural prejudices as hard to change as political ones. The spread of Islamic fundamentalism has meant the return of the chador and the loss of many hard-won freedoms. Female circumcision is still practiced in main countries and in South Africa women aren’t covered by labour, maternity benefits or unemployment insurance provisions.

Another burning issue nowadays is women and career. No doubt, that women have the same nature abilities for mental development as men have. But some time ago because of some prejudices men thought that it was impossible for a woman to become an equally educated specialist. And all doors were closed for women, esp. in the field of science. But after a long struggle, women achieved their goals and now they can get any job they want. And men rate women highly and they are even proud to work with women who are qualified specialists and caring mothers.

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