Essay On Arabyan Women

Firstly, gender discrimination is not an exclusive feature of Saudi Arabia, but it is a more outwardly visible problem there. Gender

In the United States in 2016, women were paid 80 percent of what men were paid (Kevin Miller, The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap). Women are still treated as second hand to men to this day, but we have come a far way since the sixteenth century European women. Women can go to school, work, and have lives in the United States. In other countries and cultures, however, women still have a long fight ahead of them. In Saudi Arabia, women were just recently granted the ability to drive (Nicole Gaouette and Elise Labott, CNN). This is a huge stepping stone for women in Saudi Arabia and many more countries. The guardianship rule in Saudi Arabia is still ongoing, stating that women cannot make any decision without a man or young boy telling her yes or no. Women have no freedom for making their own choices, but their chains will soon be loosened through newly imprinted laws. Just like in the home, European women and Native American women vary greatly in societal structure and cultures.

Accustomed to stereotypical depictions, Westerners are told that Middle Eastern women are passive, weak, and always veiled. It is often assumed that the severe conditions in Saudi Arabia—where women are not even allowed to drive cars—represent the norm for women throughout the Middle East and in the larger Muslim world. In reality, Saudi Arabia’s versions of both Islam and sexism are rather unique in their severities, although the rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan is now emulating the sexist Saudi model. Women enjoy political and social rights in many Muslim countries, and Egypt has recently granted women the right to divorce their husbands. In Tunisia, abortion is legal, and polygamy is prohibited. Women have served as ministers in the Syrian, Jordanian, Egyptian, Iraqi, and Tunisian governments, and as Vice President in Iran.

Men and women in the US have equal rights in terms of driving and taking cases to court. As for education, in the US, colleges have a higher enrollment of females than males, this is far from Saudi Arabia where many women remain with minimal levels of education as result of their male dominated society. The one area where the two countries have a slight similarity is in the work force. Women in Saudi Arabia are limited to positions that are suitable to their nature. In the United States women and men generally pursue undergraduate degrees in different fields which results in the majority of men a women commonly working in different professions and fields. This is one of the explanations for the supposed “wage gap” in the United States. Another example gender stratification in the US workforce comes from the “CEO Power Gap” and the “glass ceiling”. Both of these concepts indicate that women have historically had difficulties obtaining the highest levels of management within the corporate world. In spite of all of this, it is clear the conditions for women in the United States are significantly better than those for women in Saudi Arabia. The concept of femininity in Saudi Arabia is one of independence and inferiority to the superior and dominant idea of masculinity within the nation. This is simply not the case, especially to that degree, in the United

Only 18% of the workforce in Saudi Arabia consists of females, compared to 48% in Canada. For the 18% of females that do work, they are forced to work in certain shops, such as female clothing stores, where men aren’t allowed to go in. Also, the work they do can’t interfere with their housework, meaning that if their mahram see’s it is interfering, or he doesn’t approve of the job, he can stop the women from going to the job. Women are not allowed to work side by side with men, making it very difficult for them to get a job that they want, that they can manage with their time

Iranian women have to depend quite frequently on men to survive. Women aren’t even allowed to travel unless they have permission of their husbands or fathers. Marriage also

The first country, allowing women to vote was New Zealand in 1893.The next country was Australia 9 years later and 18 years later the US finally decided to ratify the 19th amendment allowing women to vote. And almost 100 years later, after the US, Saudi Arabia decided to let the women of their country to vote. Many people think that the US took too long to make the decision to let women vote, but what do you think the women of Saudi Arabia thought when the majority of the countries let women vote but they. Saudi Arabia has very strict laws when it comes to the rights of women in fact, they only earned the right to ride a bike in 2013 and earned the right to drive this year.As a woman living in a country where women have an awful lot of rights compared to places like Saudi Arabia I feel that women’s rights in Saudi Arabia are completely unfair.

The concept of a woman at the wheel was unheard of in the United States before World War I. Women motorists only first became visible as a result of their role as drivers during the war. During the woman’s suffrage movement, women were working to gain the right to vote and establish themselves as equals with men in society. With the passage of the 19th amendment, came increased mobility and independence for women. World War I and the Women’s Suffrage Movement were pivotal events in United States history that led to an increased amount of women drivers in America and a greater recognition of women as a whole in society. During this time, the automobile itself was becoming more popular,

If you were to go to the Middle Eastern North African region (MENA), you most likely won’t see females with education or equality. According to the MENA-OECD, the literacy

Women in Saudi Arabia believe that they have the right to drive and they decided they were going to do what they believe is right for them and their community. They stood up for what they believed in and showed the law that they were capable of driving instead of being driven around by men. They decided to show the law they deserved this right. Girls around the world are acting like Antigone and are finding ways to show that they should do what they believe is right and not what society thinks is right for them.

It is not hard for a woman to feel that the country is discriminating against her. In fact, I believe that is what made the video store incident to me, a “stupid” thing, not a something that I should cry over. What is more, No women in Saudi Arabia

In the time period, women and men filled distinct gender roles in society all around the world; the Middle East was no exception. In spite of the radical changes the Middle East would experience, such duties of men and women were firmly entrenched in the culture and showed no signs of budging. While men were tasked with things like warfare and hard labor, women had to take care of family and work to please a man all their life. First, a

First off women in Saudi Arabia face Discrimination from everyone, even the country's highest religious authority its Grand Mutifi, who said that women's involvement in politics would be like “ Opening the door to evil”. In addition the Grand Mutifi also stated that it would be a “dangerous matter” when asked what he thought about women gaining the right to drive driving (Source 1). In my opinion the religious leaders are the ones most responsible for the discrimination of women in Saudi Arabia. In, fact I believe that they are more responsible than the top government officials because of the fact that in many aspects the religious leaders have more power than the majority of government officials. However the political leaders don't get a break

In the article “the Saudi women” women are fighting for the right to drive. In some Arab countries, women are not allowed to drive without their husband in the car and can be punished with jail time and in some very restricted countries even death. Women have been trying to free themselves from men's rule for far too many years but have failed to do so as they need men to take care of them. Ever since the change of roles in the 21 first century women have been taking over what was once a dominated men’s society and have changed the rules for their equality and have even gone as far as speaking from their

She can argue more effectively with her husband by showing him that she can cook before she goes to her job, or work while her kids are at school. Another belief that many Middle Eastern men possess is that women would be more passive if they are uneducated. Hence, they invest a great deal of energy in ensuring that their women are out of school and uneducated. The cycle of oppression is sustained as the oppression of women continues; women are kept ignorant, while men continue to feel unthreatened by the possibility that their educated women might demand freedom and equality. The belief of Middle Eastern men viewing their women as nothing but servants, expecting them to clean, cook, and raise children seems to be the driving force behind keeping women from achieving their educational potentials.