Women's role in society

The role of women in society has been greatly overseen in the last few decades, but now is coming to a more perspective to people. In the early days women were seen as wives who were intended to cook, clean, and take care of the kids. They were not allowed to vote while men took care of having jobs and paying any bills and debts that had to be paid. Soon enough it was though that women should have a bigger role than what other people thought women should have. Women would have strikes and go on marches to prove that they should have rights just like everyone else. They faced discrimination. Women would voice or speak up their opinion in any way possible so that they could reach their goal. A great deal of arguing on concerning the role of women in society goes on. How and why is it that in today's world, where everyone looks for the value of equality, women still does not occupy the same social, economical or political position as men do? Women try insistently to mark their presence outside their kitchens and laundry rooms, yet in the same harsh manner they are being reminded of the true calling of their nature, which limits their view for a much more pleasing life. Whether women ever stood equal with males on a physical and logical level in the eyes of society we don't know. Sure, in every age there are heroic and powerful women, but although equal of men, they became his lower due to pregnancy, birth, etc., forcing them to look to men for protection and economic assistance this dependency, especially economic dependency, became the basis of women's slavery, which often existed, and still exists, after the dependent condition was long gone. In almost every family a man would be the single provider for the entire family, and although this task comes with an enormous amount of responsibility, it wasnt that hard to what women had to do. Women got the right to drive their own cars, but for some reasons the culture of Saudi Arabia doesnt allow that, but the funny part is that women are allowed to get their own foreign drivers. Women are allowed to drive planes but not their own cars! Lets take a closer look at women in the western society.

Women and Islamic/Western/Saudi Ariabias Society

The position of women in Islamic society in general and in Saudi Arabian society in particular is a difficult and commonly misunderstood issue. It is certainly true that Muslim and Western views of the role of women show sharp cultural differences but the typecast of Muslim women, as uneducated, with no rights and with no opportunities is a picture born of ignorance or malevolence. The Holy Quran gave women economic and social rights long before such rights were attained by Western women. From the beginning of Islam, women have been legally entitled to inherit and donate property, holding their wealth in their own names even after marriage, without obligation to contribute that wealth to their husband or their family. The important role played by the wives of the Prophet Muhammad (may peace and blessings be upon him), in the course of his ministry, sorts ill with the view that Islam in any way undervalues the female half of compassion. It is nevertheless true that, under Islam, a woman is enjoined to act reasonably in public and that, as in the West until recently, is generally expected to give a full obligation to making a family home a home within which, by the way, she enjoys as a top role. Such expectations are rather different from those now widely required of women in the West, just as the strength of family life and the security of women in Islamic society differs clearly from the conditions which women now face in Western society. This said it would be a mistake to think that the role of women in Saudi Arabian society is limited to home-making. The development of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has brought with it increasing opportunities for women in both education and employment. For example in 1960, the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia undertook the introduction of a national education program for girls. By the mid-1970s, about half of Saudi Arabian girls were

attending school. Five years later, education was available to all Saudi girls. By 1980, there were six universities for women. Under King Fahd, there has been further support to women to take an active role in public as well as in private life. In terms of employment, women now play an active role in teaching, medicine, social work and broadcasting at hospitals, schools, stations, and shops!