Gender Roles

Through out the history of the world during different times and locations, women have been constantly oppressed and abused based solely on their gender. One reason in the eyes of some Christians women are viewed as lesser beings of temptations due to Eve tempting Adam with the Fruit of Knowledge, therefore casting Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden. There are a few reasons I've heard that the Muslim Prominent nations have "imprisoned" women in burqas and in their homes. One reason I've heard, "it was to protect the women from the men." If a man is unable to get to a woman or see a woman they are less tempted to rape or take advantage of the women. One other reason is that that view of a woman's body tempts a man into lust and distracts him from his duties to Allah. Women in most Arabic nations are also denied their right to education. I have not heard the "justification" but the reason for this is to keep the women under their control. An educated women is an independent and fairly free woman. Slowly the way women are viewed and their roles is changing for the better in some countries. Up until around the 1950's, the role of the woman was to be the house caretaker. This included cooking, cleaning, and raising the children. In today's society, women are more free to do as they wish. They can go get an education, have a career that doesn't bound them to the house, and even be the main provider of the family unlike how the men were "suppose" to be for many centuries.