RE: Democracy, religion, women and equality. Justice demands affirmative action.
January 27, 2012 at 5:09 pm
(This post was last modified: January 27, 2012 at 5:13 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Actually, I think whether there are powerful women is not a good indication of whether the society overall is repressive of women seeking similar opportunies as men. Example of Indira Gandhi of India and Benezir Buttho of Pakistan comes to mind. Both rose quickly to the zenith of their respective male dominated society and political systems. In fact the first female prime minister in the modern world was elected not in a relative liberal nation where women enjoyed comparatively closer to equality, but in extremely male dominated Sri Lanka 20 years before any female head of state were to appear in any western democracy.
In some highly patrimonial traditional societies, it is paradoxically easier for a few highly privileged women to rise quickly to the very top carrying the mantle of successors to an esteemed political dynasty, than it is in an open western style democracy where women has to compete on her own account against men.
In some highly patrimonial traditional societies, it is paradoxically easier for a few highly privileged women to rise quickly to the very top carrying the mantle of successors to an esteemed political dynasty, than it is in an open western style democracy where women has to compete on her own account against men.
