Role of Women in Different Cultures
... takes care of the children is an imagined prototype by the male population in Muslim cultures. There is a slight chance to see a businesswoman that is successful, dressed in western clothes like in the American movies. Female education, from kindergarten through graduate school, banned. There are lots of things that women in my culture take for granted. They have more rights and they do not even know that. For example in Iraq, employment for women is banned. It is illegal to wear makeup, nail polish, jewelry, pluck your eyebrows, cut your hair short, wear colorful or stylish clothes, sheer stockings, white socks and shoes, high-heel shoes, walk loudly, talk loudly or laugh in public. Now, in my culture all of the above mentioned professions are available for women. They have the right of equal education with the members of the opposite sex. We can see that the makeup is not forbidden by anyone, and there are no dress codes for women. They can wear whatever they think is comfortable for them. The main thing is that is forbidden for them to show their faces in public, and that is why they have to wear the all-enveloping burqa. The burqa is a garment that covers women from head to toe, the heavy gauze patch across the eyes makes it hard to see, and completely blocks peripheral vision. Since enforced veiling, a growing number of women have been hit by vehicles because the burqa leaves them unable to walk fast, or see where they are going. In my culture women drive their own cars and they do not depend on anyone to go there. In Muslim culture the only public transport permitted women are special buses, which are rarely available, and have all windows, except the driver's, covered with thick blankets. It is illegal for women to talk to any men except close relatives, which precludes them from visiting male physicians, no matter how sick. At the time of my recent visit, the evening curfew began at 7:30 p.m., after which no one, except government troops, was allowed out, even for medical emergencies. Even women in labor and needing hospital care must...