E100Fall2009

It was some type of a social compact since the very early days
of mankind that males and females were not equal. In the old days, men were hunting for mammoths and women were maintaining fire in caves and
bringing up children. In the course of the time, mammoths got extinct but
the primeval distribution of the roles between men and women still existed thus
making women’s life less interesting as compared with men’s. The men’s world has
undergone many major transformations since that time, let us take the
technological progress or new state systems for example. At the same time, the
women’s world with their care about children and the house, with financial
dependence upon husbands remained in the form it
existed centuries ago. And finally, women felt that they were no longer
satisfied with the role males thrust upon them.