The condition of women

Docs en anglais | 6 pages | 03-12-2007 | Format : | Note : Non noté |

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Résumé

The condition of women is without doubt a very vast topic because it has varied over the centuries and in the different parts of the world. But women, who represent half of humanity, have always been the forgotten part while their role was as important as men's. From prehistory on, when they fought to survive, until the XXth century, when they claimed the sexual equality, the history of women has been a perpetual struggle and still today. Until the XVIIIth and XIXth century, the inferiority of woman was a principle and the societies were based on a patriarchal system. The idea of sexual equality began to emerge in some writing in the XVIIth century but above all in the XVIIIth and XIXth with the development of the feminist movement and revolutionary socialism. In spite of their important role in revolution (1789, 1848) and the development of democracy, women were always kept out of the political and public life in the XIXth and their role always was that of "wife and mother". It was in the XXth that their emancipation has happened really. In the rich states, equality seems established today but we can observe still disparities and in the Third World, the situation of women varies according to the states and their regime. Some women are still completely submissive and dependent on men, others had get rights after their participation in the movement of independence or in revolution but their situation sometimes deteriorate again like in Algeria, Iran... Tradition and conservative morality are still very active and still often triumph over the women's struggle and the wish for parity.

I decided to study condition of women in two parts: first, I will see the evolution of this condition in time and then the differences in women's situation today in the world.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Women in history

I) Origin and development of sexual disparities
II) Revolutions, democracy but not sexual equality
III) The XXth: century of emancipation

Chapter 2: Women today

I) Persistence of inequalities, traditions and conservatism
II) A superficial equality

Conclusion

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