Statutul femeii din perspectivă socio-istorică

Abstract

In every part of the planet, the society has always been divided according to different criteria: gender, age, wealth, educational level, employment, race, power, prestige, etc, which lead to the occupation of a certain position in the social hierarchy. An essential component of human personality is the fact whether one is a man or a woman. All societies use the anatomical differences between man and woman to define certain roles. Their assignment begins in the first part of the child’s life: one learns to be a man or a woman and he/she keeps this identity for the entire life. The woman and the man have had in different historical periods, in different types of society, different statuses – the woman has always been disadvantaged. Women do not accept anymore to be identified with the traditional roles that the society assigned them and that the men expected. The equality between men and women is supported not only legislativon and as a principle, but it tends to become a reference option in the interpersonal, cultural and work relations and in the relations with the institutions of the state.