Roles of Women Through Time

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Roles of Women Through Time

Introduction - What I am going to do and include

Different roles of women through time

Different view on their roles

P1 - Pre-islamic Arabia - Key issues of the life of a women

Men + women inequal, laws about polygamy

Female infanticide

P2 - How womens rights increased when Islam progressed

Polygamy rules

Choices

How the Qur'an and Hadith improve the situation

P3 - Areas of inequality Children, education (% boys % girls up to

what age?), Parenting (who says at home?), Employment (Turkey, Women

in fields, lower wages than men) Legal rights (Fundamental roles, etc)

P4 - Interpretation from several scholars Many muslim women in 21st

centuaryu in developed countries have a changing role because, for

example, those who do not choose to have arranged marriages. This does

not mean that they are less religious or true to their traditional

muslim backgrounds as the women who accept marriages. Also those role

deviates a lttle from their mothers.

However when examining the actual traditional role and rights of

muslim women it appears to contradict the teaching of the Qur'an.

EG legal rights

Educational rights

Rebecca Griffin

The proscribed role of women in Islam

This title initiates many arguments surrounding the proscribed role of

women in Islam. The purpose of this exploration of women is to delve

into the reality, and unearth the true boundaries, namely the

position, woman actually hold. I shall be investigating whether the

women's role in marriage and society is as inequitable as the media

portrays. The purpose of this essay is to examine the central issue of

whether Islam is a patriarchal religion, and whether a Muslim women's

role in the marriage relationship is equivalent to that of her

husband.

Arguments that will be covered

There are two sides to this argument. On one side there is a

'widespread perception that faith oppresses and even persecutes women'[1],

and then there are the arguments on cultural deviations, and the

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