Current Role of Women in Society

Current role of women in society

    Nowadays, taken as a whole, women have played an important part in modern society. People can easily see them in newspaper, on television, or interviewed on different realm. Moreover women have made huge progress in the workplace and some of them have established their own companies. Although the change in the positions of women is undeniable, people still need to care more about women in developing countries, such as Arab, India, Pakistan and so on.

In the traditional society of Middle East, the status of females was basically depended on the role of males. Although, the majority of Muslim women have freedom and rights in certain degrees, man in the society own the absolute authority, which an even have three or four wives. Women must wear the veil when they want to go outside and their safety cannot be guaranteed easily. Therefore in the Arab society, the real equality between men and women is struggling.

But then there was a twist in spring 2011 called ‘The Arab Spring Revolutions’. The Arab Spring involved protests, civil wars, and demonstrations against authoritarian regimes that started in Tunisia and spread the Arab world. Women in Arab played an important role in the Revolutions. Women began to fight for their rights, for their independence and for their respect. They came out and contributed all their potential in the revolution. Although the Arab spring is a step further away from oppression and dictatorship and a step closer to freedom and democracy, women still lost chance to gain empowerment and participation at the end of the demonstration, which caused them remain grounded in the same terrain.

Not only the women in Arab, another famous case in India will take into consideration. Women in India struggle to live, to get better education, even cannot be guaranteed their safety. The sexual harassments as well as moral abuse happen usually in Indian modern society. The famous case is the gang rape of a woman on an Indian Metro Bus route. Six people in a moving bus in New Delhi raped a 23-year-old woman. They not only beat the girl, but also ravished her. More seriously, the police office did not record any cases about rapes and most of males in India thought that a good girl should not go outside at night. Because of unequal treatment to Indian women, the discrimination affects the sex ratio in India at the stage of birth. Every girl will bring lots of pressure on their family and suffer from rape, kidnapping, molestation, sexual harassment, etc. Therefore, women in India will never be safe until the society changes its attitudes and the people in India should put pressure continuously on government to protect more and more women.

I have lived in China when I was born. For long stretches of history, the position of women changed a lot after entering patrilineal society. During primitive times, Female was very respected and had absolute predominance. They stayed at home and act as a role of manager in the whole family. At the end of primitive times, women’s status began to change gradually. Because the productivity developed a lot at that period, males began to own slaves through fighting and wars in order to become the slaveholders and dominate the source of finance. The status of females, at this time, was replaced by the males in social life and the whole society changed from matriarchal society into patriarchal society. Man at that time could even barter trade their wives.

In feudal society, Women stand on the lowest position in society, receiving the most persecution, whether they are top of the wife or the bottom of the slaves. All of them could not escape the feudal women’s life tragedy. However, compared with women in other feudal dynasties, women in Tang dynasty have the higher social status. The only empress, Zetian Wu, appeared in Tang dynasty. She was striving to reform the country in military, diplomacy, education and culture, which push the Tang dynasty into a peak period.