ition of women is remaining to be subordinate. The workings of the international political and economic patterns are persevering in reproducing an underprivileged position for women. As Paterson and Runyan disclose, women own about 1 per cent of the entire world's property and make up less than 5 per cent of the heads of state and cabinet ministers. They also indicate that women put in about 60 per cent of all working hours, take home 10 per cent of all income, and they account for 60 per cent of all illiterates and about 80 per cent of all refugees. (Peterson and Runyan, 1993). It is clear that these great statistical differences have nothing to do with differences between men and women. This is a demonstration that gender discrimination and the disadvantagement of women is taking place, and can well be considered as dramatic.
             Different feminist approaches emphasize that politics is gendered, and that another point of view is possible and needed. For a long time, global politics have been opposed to this perspective, regarding it as irrelevant for the science, as well as for practice. Feminists have managed to show that many aspects of politics are created by the standards of men, and that women were frequently given subordinate positions. Political
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