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Throughout the history ,unlike men who have always had their specific responcibilities ,women have had different roles in different eras.Men have had the role of leading and managing family due to the different God-given nature.

The issue of the different creation of woman ,has not the reason for her different roles throughout the history ,but each group has outlined a specific role for woman due to their own ideology and philosophy .

Their were societies which undermined woman as a minor creature ,but this negative view was eliminated after woman as a minor creature ,but this negative view was eliminated after women took their role in the society .In the male-dominant society woman was mistress and even if she was a wife ,she only had the responsibility of giving birth to children and she had no right to choose her husband against the will of her father .Off course ,under such circumstances it was almost impossible to expect women to reform the society.

No ideological or religious theory has given freedom to women like Islam and although the West claims that it is promoting women's freedom,it is indeed a kind of slavery rather than freedom .In this regard the French Encyclopedia says:Women's physiology is like that of children's .that's is why they are so sensitive and easily affected by joy,distress ,and fear and as her mind is subconsciously affected by such feelings,she becomes unstable.Imagine ,this is the ideology of French government which considers itself as civilised.

Islam came and specified the value and position of woman in the future life ,and specified her rights and responsibilities that no other society before and after Islam gave to women .Islam promoted justice and fairness and called for equality and supported the oppressed.

" O you men! surely We have created you of a male and a female ,and made you tribes and families that you may know each

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