woman in mans world
As the only girl among forty male classmates in a Electrical Engineering class my aunt Ana had very uncomfortable feeling, which she never experienced before. She will probably forever remember professor's class discussions and questions, for which she has always stayed quiet without participating in discussions or answering the questions, while almost everybody else gave some answers or comments. What would it look like if she gives the wrong answer? Her colleagues could think that Ana is in the wrong place, or moreover, she is just one more girl who is trying to be smart. The same story was repeated every single week. Every time she entered that class, she kept her head down looking at the floor. As the only girl in Engineering class she was ashamed. "What am I doing here?" she asked herself a hundred times during this class. Ana felt like a stranger in some far, unknown land where people speak a different language. Men are real masters of Engineering classes. It is their world and their kingdom. Why is that? Who established this rule? Where are women in that combination? Who represents them? Since the early history and ancient civilizations, woman has played a secondary
She knows also of the "minirapes"; the pinch in the crowded bus, the wolf whistle from a passing car or the stare of a man looking at her bust during a conversation. Also in the Arab countries, woman has been an inferior second class citizen: she was not allowed to participate in public life, also she could not be seen in any "man" place such a cafe, bar, or mosque. First, we live in a world of professional men and only men; unless the professional is identified as a "lady" or "woman" we assume the person to be a male. Furthermore, in Africa women is a housekeeper surrounded with her children, waiting for her husband to come home from hunting, to bring food for her and the children. Today importance and status of a woman has changed, it's modernized I would say. Although women made a giant step toward their independence and equality with a man, they have a lot to do in future. In the area of work, women have made great strides: the once unimaginable increase in the number of women in high-status, high-income professions such as US State Secretary Madeleine Albright or US First Lady Mrs. Moreover, in most Asian countries even today, woman is stuck with the same stereotype. I believe as long as man, like a ruler, does not realize woman's importance in everyday life, she will not get a real chance to prosper or to be at least equal to him. In recent years, women have gained greater control over their rights, thanks to the feminist movement. They are attending college and graduate schools in greater numbers than ever before.
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