The Superior School of Commerce

Nicolae Kretzulescu

Women's Steps Beyond the

Fence
Teacher coordinator:
Ierulescu Camelia Dorina

Student:
Simonis Teodora
Mihaela

Bucharest
2006

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 Women In Antiquity And Now
Attitudes Toward Women
Changing Status Of Women
CHAPTER 2 The evolution of women in the last 100 years
CHAPTER 3 Womens situation in other countries
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY

CHAPTER 1
Women in antiquity and now

Attitudes Toward Women

Patriarchal families valued honour. The sexual

behaviour and reputation of the women of a lineage were
the most important components of a family's honour.

Changing Status of Women

Since the early 1970s, women's status has been

changing, mostly because an increasing number of women
have joined the non-agricultural workforce.

CHAPTER 2
The evolution of women in the last 100
years

Woman in the last 100 years

In the early 1900s
the womans role was
primarily a domestic one the domain of women is
the household and the
proper functioning of the
family unit.

The weaker sex

Attitudes towards women have come from the

perception that women were the weaker sex physically,
intellectually and politically to the legal and societal
recognition of women as equal to men.

Womens Rights are Human Rights

In a very real sense, women's rights are the basis of all

human rights. Women's rights belong to women as members of
the human family, and, as such, are not dependent either on a
woman's marital status or on the number or sex of the children
she has borne.

CHAPTER 3
Womens situation in other countries

Status of women in other countries

Status of women in Austria
Despite the improvement of the
legal position of women in Austria
since the mid-1970s, traditional role
models prevail.

 Status of women in Austria

Whether women are employed

outside the home or not, many
Austrian men consider the great
majority of housework and childrearing tasks to be womens
work.

Status of women in Egypt

The sexual behaviour and

reputation of the women of a
lineage were the most important
components of a family's
honour.

Status of women in Egypt

Men were especially interested in maintaining honour.

Women were always on their best behaviour around men
from other families because they were afraid of getting a bad
reputation. A bad reputation could disgrace the men of her
family.

Status of women in Finland

When compared with women of other nations,

Finnish women, who accounted for just over 50 percent
of the population in the mid-1980s, did have a privileged
place.

Status of women in Germany

For centuries, a
woman's role in German
society was summed up
and circumscribed by the
three "K" words: Kinder
(children), Kirche
(church), and Kche
(kitchen).

Status of women in Iran

Women generally used to wear the chador (or veil)

when in public or when males not related to them were in
the house.

Status of women in Pakistan

One of the most important challenges faced by

Pakistan women concerns their integration into the
labour force

The Superior School of Commerce Nicolae

Kretzulescu

Women's Steps Beyond the

Fence
Teacher coordinator:
Ierulescu Camelia Dorina

Student:
Simonis Teodora
Mihaela

Bucharest
2006