Women's Socio-Political Difference and Discrimination

The shapers of European thought (the ancient Greeks) declared that from a biological viewpoint the woman’s body constitution is inferior to the man’s, and therefore she must subordinate herself. From this point until the appearance of feminism which conceptualized the discrimination of women and demanded its elimination, millennia have passed during which power has strengthened as a privilege of masculinity. In order to emphasize discrimination, I started from the hypothesis of the sexist nature of the social-political environment. As any system of thought, patriarchy also has models which make it secure, and which stand at the basis of its undesired authority. While the equality of Spartan women revolted Aristotle, saying that thus even slaves could ask for equal rights, the evolution of society forced this aberration and stain on the face of humanity to be eliminated, and the perspectives of social-political equality of chances between women and men surpass the stage of requirement. However, women’s social-political discrimination is a reality, despite the anti-discrimination legislation in the whole world.

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