Society’s View of Women in Different Civilizations

Women have a great influence in society so they are the infrastructure of the progress of society because they are home-makers and shapers of future generations. Women can bear a lot for those around them. God creates her affectionate, eliminates worries and bear the hardships of life for the ability to bear the pain.

Women have excelled in many fields and have also competed men, where they proved that women can not be described as weak and lack of intelligence. They are joined to the presidency and there are engineers who have mastered in their fields. The first woman who got the Chemical Engineering Fellowship from among 97 women worldwide and the first in the Middle East is Bahraini Maryam Jamaan as for Aisha Al Hamli the first woman who drives a plane in the UAE and is the first female member of the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and she is the youngest of them.

Society's view of women in pre-Islamic times

There is no doubt that the woman is the split of the human soul and mankind maker but do the man's view of women was the same throughout the ages in the various civilizations which had preceded Islam? Throughout the ages, men have considered women to be a degenerate person and a demon who has whispers evil. In addition to that, it has been greatly insulted in those ages as she was bought and sold in markets such as goods or livestock and property. Women were forced into marriage and prostitution, inherited and did not be inherit and owns and does not own and was always subject to men father and wife, owned by her husband and set up a guardian before his death. While men have had power and sovereignty in everything and considered women to be nothing, they are treated like belongings at home and have no rights but many duties.

Men's views differed in some countries on the name of women. Is she a human with an immortal soul and is she entering paradise like a man or not? In the end, one of Rome's councils decided that she was unclean animal, soulless or without immortality and she must worship, serve and put muzzle in her mouth like a camel or a predatory dog to prevent her from laughing and speaking because she was devil's snares to them.

There is no available information on the status of women or the reality of pre-history relationships between man and women. There is no information about the man's view of women in those times and can not be judged if were seen her with a respectful and appreciative look or contempt, since it can not go beyond ten thousand years ago to consider the relationship between man and women because it is impossible to rely on the excavations left by these distant times, this is because some of the ancient skulls found by ethnographers in Europe, Africa and China do not know exactly whether they are male or female.

Sociologists and ethnographers such as Louis Morgan, Bakhovia and Friedrich_Engels say that human history first defined sexual communism in which all women are truly common to all men in the society that lived like the rest of the animals, where they live to look for food and achieve their sexual instinct at any available way with any female so male for all female There was a phenomenon known as Bride of the Nile where they throw a beautiful girl decorated with jewels and best clothes in Nile River, they think that development will overflowing and increasing. This tradition was continue until Islam came and was abolished by 'Amr Ibn Al-'As during the reign of Caliph Umar Ibn Al-Khattab.

Women in Greek civilization

In Greece a woman was like the poisoned tree, she was despised and humiliated until they named her abomination of the devil's work. Woman was like junk where she was sold and bought in the markets, lost the rights, deprived of the right to inheritance, the right to dispose of money, and she was very degenerate, she was even not spared from the Greek philosophers.

Aristotle's view of women

This view was not limited to ordinary men or ignorant people of the Greeks, but was also the view of thinkers, wise men and philosophers in the same way, while man is the owner of all rights.

Philosopher Aristotle's opinion on the status of women in their society after analysis and thinking says: "Nature has not provided women with any appropriate mental readiness and therefore must be limited to the affairs of housekeeping, motherhood nursery and so on. Then he says: "Three do not have to act with themselves: the slave that has no will, child has incomplete will , and women have the will and she is powerless.", and he said: "The woman is incomplete man, and left by nature in the bottom of the ladder of creation", and he said , women are slaves to men as slaves to the masters, world worker and Berbers of Greece, thus men are higher than women.

Socrates view of women

It has been said by the philosopher Socrates: "The presence of women are the largest origin, the source of the crisis and the collapse of the world, the woman resembles a poisoned tree, where they have a beautiful appearance, but when the birds eat them it dies immediately."

The status of women in the Roman civilization

Romans considered women to be a man-owned and cheap goods in which men can behave in ways that they like, men was considered them as evil must be avoided and they are created just for pleasure, women was always subordinate to men a father or husband. In addition, man owned her money because woman was in his view and the view of men and the whole society worthless, also her father and her husband have and vice versa.