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women have made an exceedingly great impact on the world’s economical, social, and political spectrum. However, women are still deemed inferior to men in past and present cultures. The inferiority of women has been portrayed through various avenues such as literature and written works. The Virgil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses’ women characters are three perfect depictions of how women in today’s society are dominated, disregarded, and discredited.

Throughout the course of history, society had stereotyped women, making it merely impossible for a woman to achieve her goals and desires in life. This had weighed them not as equals, and for this, they were given different standards by which to live. At this day and age, and during the ancient Greek times, women have always been treated as second best by biased men, although today’s society has started to understand this inequality better as time progresses further into the future. Even with society becoming more equal for women, females are still treated similar as to time of the ancient Greeks. Women still don’t have as much power as men, are still “blamed” for wrongdoings and thought as untrustworthy, and are still used as “currency”

Women have historically had a rocky relationship with governmental, cultural, religious, and social rights. The Women’s Rights movement has been in effect since approximately 1792, with the publication of the first feminist work, “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by British writer Mary Wollstonecraft” (“Women’s Rights Movement”). While social changes have occurred and more progressive laws have been put into place throughout the years, there is still not equality between the sexes. Additionally, gender roles in different countries differ greatly. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the major causes and concerns of the Women’s Rights movements throughout the decades, as well as denote the differences between more progressive societies and their less accepting counterparts.

Many ancient laws and beliefs show that women from all around the world have always been considered inferior to men. However, as time went on, ideas of equality circulated around and women started to demand equality. Many women fought for equality and succeeded in bringing some rights. However, full equality for women has yet to be fulfilled. This issue is important because many women believe that the rights of a person should not be infringed no matter what their gender is, and by not giving them equality, their rights are being limited. During the periods 1840 to 1968, total equality for women did not become a reality due to inadequate political representation, economic discrepancy, and

Feminism is a very popular and controversial concept in today’s world. Feminism is a range of ideologies as well as social and political movement all aiming for a common goal to define, establish and achieve equal rights and position to women legally as well as socially. The people with these ideologies are commonly known as FEMINIST. Feminism theory is not only about understanding but also to take action. Naturally people expect women to be related to the idea of feminism and be a feminist rather than men. Men have taken part as significant cultural and political responses within each wave of feminism movements.Feminist men have also argued alongside scholars that liberation of men from the socio cultural constraints of gender roles and sexism is a significant part of feminist activism and scholarship.

It must be noted that Plato is far from flattering in his generalizations about females; he believes that women are on average weaker or less adept at almost all tasks, other than those that traditionally fall in the female sphere of influence such as keeping a house and the related activities. Plato is more concerned with what the exceptionally bright or strongest women can offer the state, not necessarily what women in general have to offer. Plato spends little time in the dialogue discussing the question of equality in

Modern day America considers women equal to men. From childhood, girls, like boys, receive an education in order to pursue their own individual interests which eventually lead to a life filled with opportunity. With hard work, women can become teachers, scientists, government officials or whatever they dream. Young students of history and literature may be surprised to realize that females were not always viewed as they are in American society today. Homer’s Greek epic, The Odyssey, portrays women as inferior to men because they are untrustworthy and cause pain.

Beginning in 1848 the worldwide women’s rights movement eventually included forty-three different countries. The basic rally was for women to be given the equalities of men. Groups were fighting for different laws to be changed within the cultural boundaries of their country, but the bottom line was – and still is, that women demand more respect.

For many centuries women have had no legal rights and have been regarded as their husband’s property. Even though women’s right’s movement and the first feminist waves are dated to begin at the end of the nineteenth century, many women before have addressed the social injustice. Rosina’s letter “Rights of Women” was published August 13th, 1839 in “The Liberator”, an anti-slavery newspaper, and demands gender equality. At that time “married women essentially had no rights at all, as all legal authority rested with their husbands.” (Doepke and Tertilt 1541-1542).

Socrates believed that women should be equal to men in society. “If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.” Women should be equal to men and that starts with their education, so that neither men nor women have a certain advantage. His next point was that the society needed to be producing the right kind of children. In order for this to happen sex would only happen at certain times a year during a festival. Women and men would become married long enough to have sex and then the men would move on to the next woman. All of the children that were conceived from this one festival would be taken from their families at birth and raised together so that they do not know who their parents are. It makes it so that the society is one big family and then the children’s first priority is the society because that is in a sense their family. His last thought on the roles of people is that philosophers should be rulers. “Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.” (Stockett) The main difference between men and women in Socrates’ day, besides anatomy, was their education. They are both capable of the same things, so they should receive the same

The documents “Media Bemoans the Condition of Women” and “Plato on the Role of Women in his Utopian Republic” were about the status of women in Ancient Greece. “Media Bemoan the Condition of Women” was more focused on how women were treated much more poorly than men were. The “Plato on the Role of Women in His Utopian Republic” seems to make it sound as if women and men were more equal during this time period.

The idea of “Feminism” is seen in the eyes of many as “women who want to be more masculine” whenever its true meaning is just women who want equality and the same respect and opportunities that men have. This belief has been built up over time through many different perspectives which is why it had turned into the negative idea of what it is. This idea of “Feminism” affected the social hierarchy and system where people were categorized based upon their sex and the social impact it made created and resolved multiple social issues. The idea of “Feminism” impacted the interactions between men and women and the morals of society and through this created power in women as well introduce a long needed new peace amongst the sexes.

Numerous pursuers have found in Plato 's Republic an uncommon exemption in western logic 's long history of sexist denigration of ladies, and some have even concluded that Plato 's eagerness to open up the best instruction and the most astounding occupations to ladies demonstrates a sort of women 's liberation (Wender 1973). Different perusers dissent (Annas 1976, Buchan 1999). They point to Plato 's lack of interest to the necessities of real ladies in his own particular

Plato's suggestion that female guardians do everything male guardians do is a radical and revolutionary proposal in a time when women were viewed as property. However there are complexities and contradictions in the Platonic text on female equality. He makes obvious statements and allusions those women are more cowardly, less trustworthy, innately worse then men. In Book V, he emphasizes that women, as a class are equals to men in capacity, although on the whole, weaker in all pursuits. Plato's ideal society is inadequate for the emancipation of women from the standpoint of feminism today. His proposal is not in the interest of woman as a class whom he supposes to be depraved, but in the

The glass ceiling, the gap between men and women as it’s been called, has persisted throughout time. Women’s roles in societies have in many ways drastically changed from the time of the ancient Greeks to the present, but still there are similarities that have persisted through the test of time. In some of the Greek philosophers writing about their ideal balanced cities women are barely even mentioned. Socrates, in Plato’s Republic, has women being a communal property and in Aristotle 's Politics, women though not shared property anymore women are still second class citizens to men. The time of the Greeks in many ways was a low point in women’s rights as they were seen to be mythical demons of disaster and as such were locked away into the private sphere, but at the same time due to religious roles women were still able to have a presence in public life.