¶ … Public Perception of Women from 1950's to 21st Century
Man and women are what constitutes what one calls Mankind or Human Beings. Historically man has tried to be dominant over the woman. The further one travels in history it is seen that women were considered to be something inferior. They were not treated as human beings but were treated as objects. Men considered them to be their possession. They wanted to control their thoughts and actions. Man since time immemorial has tried to decide the role of woman in society. Some societies also saw them to be as a machine for the purpose of reproduction. Even today there are some societies that look upon women to be someone inferior although globally speaking these societies are very few in number and the majority of people have come to recognize and realize that women are as much of human beings as man is. Slowly people have accepted them to be equal to man rather than inferior. The concept of male domination is slowly reducing now.
When one travels back in history, in the 1950's, women were given specific roles in society. If you were a woman then your role was to be a housewife and take care of the kids. The husband would go out and work whereas the woman would clean the house, cook the food, and nurture the children. Parents did not bother much with the education of their daughter and rarely females were allowed to go for post graduation. Many societies back then did not allow a woman to marry who she liked and the trend for arranged marriage was dominant. Such behavior by man was derived from some religious doctrines and ideas presented by Darwin. Darwin had claimed that the best genes are transferred to the males as compared to the females. Ideas like these psychologically programmed the human mind that women are inferior as compared to men. Moreover religious doctrines like the Bible states that it was Eve who came under the influence of the whispers of Satan and thus ate the forbidden fruit. This further programmed men to believe that woman is evil by nature. Thus since society was introduced to ideas like these, the public in general came to observe women to be inferior and evil. As a result there was oppression of the females and a form of gender discrimination was noted to exist dominantly as we travel back in history. Other people did recognize the problem and the faulty behavior of man throughout history and many did write against it. Islam being one religion that actually taught people that women are not inferior and should be allowed to work and should be given the right to be educated. However such teachings and ideas tended to disappear with time under cultural pressures and people started directing for women their roles and wanted to control them.
Women throughout history have also played important roles in society and worked for the independence of their nation. They have made remarkable efforts to achieve something that men could not achieve. However these efforts were forgotten and ignored by the male gender of society. Such an example is seen in the Algerian war of independence. The French colonialists ruled Algeria for a very long time from 1830 all the way till 1962 when Algeria gained their independence. Algerian men and women both participated in the war of independence and the women fought as bravely as the men to gain liberation from the French. For the time being the role of women changed in the eyes of men and they had no problem in standing with the women shoulder to shoulder and fighting against the French. However the sad part is that when the French forces lost the war, the same night when everyone was out celebrating, the men came out on the streets chanting that women should go back into their homes. The men did not like the women celebrating and the instant the war was over they forgot that the women played an important role in the nation's independence and thus have an equal right to celebrate. The public however instructed women to go back into the homes and take care of the household.
Women were not hired for job previously and it was in the 1970's that women started to move into the labor force. "The movement of women into the labor force has been described as the 'single most outstanding event of our century'" (William T. Markham, p.695). Moreover the...
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