Most countries around the world had various ways of treating women. Iran is a Middle Eastern country that does acknowledge women's importance in life. Women struggled greatly while living in Iran. They had no legal rights nor any legal voice in government. The Iranian government required women to wear chadors and cover themselves in front of men, as a sign of respect towards the men. By doing so, women were giving the men a greater power over them. However, men did not respect the women in any way. Men overpowered women greatly in every aspect of life. Women had no freedom to make their own decisions. Since men overpowered the women they had also abused them brutally. In the memoir Persian Girls by Nahid Rachlin describes many challenges women face living in Iran. Lack of power, freedom, and abuse were three main challenges women faced in Iran. .
Men overpowering women was a major challenge that women living in Iran had to face. When Nahid was nine years old her father took her out of school by force and brought back home to Ahvaz. Nahid says of her father, "He took my hand and led me forcefully toward the outside door" ( Nahid 6-7). This quote portrays Nahid's lack of power towards her father. She was unable to decide whether she wanted to go with her father or not. She was ordered and taken by force to go back home with her father. Men controlled the women's life in every way. Freedom was a factor that women lacked very much in Iran. Women had no freedom or voice. They were not allowed to express their thoughts, opinions, or make decisions for themselves. When Pari was at legal age to marry, her father found her Taheri, a potential wealthy and respectful husband. However, Pari wanted to marry Majid, the man she was in love with. Pari has a conversation with her father saying, "I want to marry for love." Her father answers her in rage " Your head is in the clouds! You don't know what's good for you" ( 66).
In Athens women had less rights. ... For the different classes he gave them different rights (geocities). ... Persia had now made their way to the Aegean Sea and some Greek islands (geocities). ... Athens lost the first battle and then sent a counter and Persia retreated (geocities). ... Persia tried again and Athens defeated the Persians At Plataea (geocities). ...
"Purdah probably developed in Persia and later spread to Middle Eastern lands. ... Some critics see purdah as an evil influence that has only suffocated the rights of women and perpetuated male chauvinism. ... Islam exalts the status of women by commanding that women should enjoy equal rights with men and remain on the same footing as them. ... I think that tradition is a very big obstacle for women in the Middle East - tradition has been a big obstacle for women around the world. ... When most people think of women in the Middle East they picture traditional purdah, heavy robes and veils, wo...
However, even though fighting for the same purpose against Persia, tension between Athens and Sparta would grow until fighting escalated into the Peloponnesian War a half century later. During the early 400's, Persia would assist Sparta in finally defeating Athens which was led by Pericles for years. ... Philip II had ambitions of attacking Persia for having attacked Greece back in 480B.C, but was murdered by a Macedonia nobel. ... Women considered citizens and were able to own land and go to court over land, but women did have much more limited rights than the men did. ...
Educated Western women throughout the most recent two thousand years such as Christine de Pizan and Olympe de Gouges (Declarations of the Rights of Women) have called for the emancipation of women and female education. ... They took steps with dogged determination to demand rights equal to the male establishment, and thereby changing thousands of years of status quo. Today's Woman's Rights organizations such as NOW stand in the forefront of the fight for women's equality. ... This separation caused the sharp devaluement of women's economic importance and the sequentia...
The first Khalifas which were close companions of the prophet, Abu Bakr followed by Umar, conquered the great empire of Persia and the byzantine provinces of Syria and Palestine. ... Islam has its own holy book (the Quran) in which it discusses multiple matters such as divorce, rights of women, the number of wives a man can have, and the rights of women, children, and slaves. ...
Islam, meanwhile, actually improved women's status, as it guaranteed the greater property rights than those enjoyed by their European counterparts; and it limited to four the number of wives a man could marry. ... Next were the women promoted to "fortunate" once they had been invited to share the sultan's bed. Beneath them were the "in favor", or women who might eventually share his bed. ... Until that time, women and children had lived away from the sultan, in completely separate facilities. ... Informed of a forged letter to the shah of Persia, supposedly written by Mustafa, about...
This was to launch major changes from an Iran that had no serious public educational system, few roads, no railroad, and very little reform in the position of women, and was dependent on the west, into a more modernized/westernized country. ... Its ideological basis was Iranian nationalism based on glorification of pre-Islamic Persia. ... Women began to enjoy the same educational and social rights as men. ...
In 334 BC Alexander continued with his father's plans of the taking over of Persia. ... Alexander encouraged and participated in intermarriage between his soldiers and the women of conquered regions, believing this would further instill Greek culture throughout his empire. ... His many reforms included sending out teams of two people; one a man of the church the other a noble, these men informed the people of their rights. ...
In the earliest times it may have been possible that women were worshipped as the creatures of life because of their reproductive abilities. But, while the power of women was recognized in mythology and rituals, the power of women in agricultural societies was less than those of hunting societies. ... Men spent most of the rest of their time raiding or looking out for raiders, so women mostly did everything else which involved lots of drudgery. 5. ...
