North American Women
The Past and Present: From North American Women to Women of the Middle East
Introduction to Anthropology
The Past and Present: From North American Women to Women of the Middle East
The female plays a vital role in every culture, but the expectation of a woman is different from North America to the Middle East. American women had to fight for their current rights, but in some countries women are not given the opportunity to fight, or even think it. Both religion and men from the Middle East play a major role in the Islamic woman’s beliefs, education, and even health. Imagine the American women of the past, who were not able to have an education, expected to bare children, expected to wear a dress and had no say in the political world. …show more content…
Acts like the 1920’s Woman’s Suffrage Act helped modernize the North American woman. In The Woman Citizen, Stanley Lemons describes Women’s Emancipation as “the elimination of oppressive restrictions imposed by sex”. Men had the power over women for many years in America and that same power is still present in countries such as Morocco, Iraq and Afghanistan. In Empowering Women, Developing Society, by Farzaneh Roudi-Fahimi and Valentine M. Moghadam, it states, “Woman in the Middle East region must obtain permission from a male relative, usually a husband or father, before seeking employment, requesting a loan, starting a business, or traveling”. According to Farzaneh’s article, only 20% of Middle East Women are in the labor force. They have the lowest level of employed females than any other region. In the states, that percentage is much higher and steadily …show more content…
The man faces no shame, again just like the North American woman of the past. Presently, North American women are free to marry, divorce, re-marry, and divorce again if she so chooses, without worries of public shame or ridicule. Unfortunately, this shame still resides with the Muslim women. Currently, when a Muslim woman marries it is not because of love, but because her father chose a suitable husband for her at a very early age and she is expected to bare at least six children. Women do not have a say in today’s Muslim society and did not have a say in the past, unlike the voice of an American woman from past to
Introduction to Anthropology
The Past and Present: From North American Women to Women of the Middle East
The female plays a vital role in every culture, but the expectation of a woman is different from North America to the Middle East. American women had to fight for their current rights, but in some countries women are not given the opportunity to fight, or even think it. Both religion and men from the Middle East play a major role in the Islamic woman’s beliefs, education, and even health. Imagine the American women of the past, who were not able to have an education, expected to bare children, expected to wear a dress and had no say in the political world. …show more content…
Acts like the 1920’s Woman’s Suffrage Act helped modernize the North American woman. In The Woman Citizen, Stanley Lemons describes Women’s Emancipation as “the elimination of oppressive restrictions imposed by sex”. Men had the power over women for many years in America and that same power is still present in countries such as Morocco, Iraq and Afghanistan. In Empowering Women, Developing Society, by Farzaneh Roudi-Fahimi and Valentine M. Moghadam, it states, “Woman in the Middle East region must obtain permission from a male relative, usually a husband or father, before seeking employment, requesting a loan, starting a business, or traveling”. According to Farzaneh’s article, only 20% of Middle East Women are in the labor force. They have the lowest level of employed females than any other region. In the states, that percentage is much higher and steadily …show more content…
The man faces no shame, again just like the North American woman of the past. Presently, North American women are free to marry, divorce, re-marry, and divorce again if she so chooses, without worries of public shame or ridicule. Unfortunately, this shame still resides with the Muslim women. Currently, when a Muslim woman marries it is not because of love, but because her father chose a suitable husband for her at a very early age and she is expected to bare at least six children. Women do not have a say in today’s Muslim society and did not have a say in the past, unlike the voice of an American woman from past to