evident in the patriarchal and patrilineal society. It must be rather odd for me to write you this letter as we’ve never met each other, not to mention talk to each other. Despite that, you had inspired me to be who I want to be, not the society wants me to be. The main reason to write this letter to you is to share my experience to you and show my admiration of your persistence. Actually, gender inequality in the United States and China are both relatively severe and similar. Growing up in a family
attitude of Indian society. We, now, claim to have world level competition in the field of education, medical, engineering, economy etc. and descend one of the oldest cultures. But socially still we lag behind due to our conservative tendency of the patriarchal society where sexual inequality is at its peak because of the son preference over the daughter. Hariyana, Punjab, Bihar, U. P. etc. are such states where the practice of sex selection is threatening the male- female ratio in India which is 1000:943
Feminism grew out of women’s movement against the long history of bias against and inhuman treatment of women by patriarchal men. Feminists, especially in the West started expressing concern on the issue of sex, gender, and even language, which was the product of patriarchy. Postcolonial feminism refutes prejudiced power relationships. It started a fight for the equal justice and equal opportunity for women. We are familiar with the history that women were paid less than a man for the same work
ability to be honest about society’s ignorance towards the ‘hardest things’, even to her own family. Gilman, a feminist writer, uses characters in her often satirical short stories to highlight the experiences of a woman living in an overwhelmingly patriarchal society. Her most famous story, The Yellow Wallpaper records her ‘narrow escape’ from ‘complete mental ruin’ , and, along with her other stories expounds truths about feminine injustice. Wharton looks at the relationships one man has with two women;
Brick Lane: Mirroring Nazneen’s Metamorphosis Dr. Hossain Al Mamun Associate Professor Department of English Shahjalal University of Science & Technology Sylhet, Bangladesh mamuneng_sust@yahoo.com +8801711987266 Abstract: Brick Lane (2003) unfolds a story of an immigrant woman—Nazneen, and her journey to Britain from Bangladesh and her all out struggle for getting freedom. Heraclitus comments in the beginning of the novel—“A man’s character is his fate”, but the story presents man’s supremacy
Roman Catholics and share the same beliefs. In the same way, American Muslim women are different from their Pakistani counterparts, who are different from those in Saudi Arabia. In these countries, women are accorded different rights and privileges because of the social, economic, cultural and governmental set-ups of the area. Many American Muslim women are discriminated against because they cover their heads; Pakistani women have political rights but are often exploited; Saudi Women have no public
CHAPTER TWO: CASE STUDY: AN ANALYSIS OF THE FISCAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EQUITY BANK, THE WOMEN'S ENTERPRISE FUND AND WOMEN IN THE INFORMAL SECTOR . Female economic empowerment is influenced by access to finance and capital. This chapter seeks to analyze the extent of this assertion by critically assessing information attained through fieldwork across the aforementioned financial institutions and among women in the informal sector. The fieldwork was carried out over a period of two weeks within