The Roles of Women
The role of the women in our society
Elvira López Ochoa
INTRODUCTION
History tends to present the social advances made by women as a result of progress itself up as the result of a process in which, in any case, women do not have influenced. However, the reconstruction of history shows that women have achieved social gains only where and when it has been women fighting and starring those conquests. They were the struggles of many women, allowing us to enjoy rights today in the very near past were denied. While not change the societies in which we live, will basically claims and successes of the women who allow further progress on equality. Women, like men, have opinions and attitudes very different political and ideological because they have very different interests, but as human beings have a common set of rights ranging from the right to work, freedom of expression, to participate actively in politics, to study, and also to the well-deserved rest after long days of work, the right to leisure, culture and recreational aspects. Ridiculing the issues affecting women's rights is a strategy that has always worked the most immobile of society. Often, many of the problems women have been problems "invisible" from the "double day" (at work and at home) to the so-called "glass ceiling" (no explicit barrier often find women to reach positions managers in public and private companies). The fact of trying to keep women hidden at home has been a way to keep it hidden. "What is not there." But the new woman, a woman with rights, has come forward just to go to work outside the home and to get to demand what belongs to without feeling bad about it, in short, be individuals who act accordingly. What is happening right now in the feminist movement raises a number of considerations: first, feminism is currently visible mainly in academia, in research and in the statement of social change, but more sparingly in the opinion public. As a social movement, apparently is not very
Elvira López Ochoa
INTRODUCTION
History tends to present the social advances made by women as a result of progress itself up as the result of a process in which, in any case, women do not have influenced. However, the reconstruction of history shows that women have achieved social gains only where and when it has been women fighting and starring those conquests. They were the struggles of many women, allowing us to enjoy rights today in the very near past were denied. While not change the societies in which we live, will basically claims and successes of the women who allow further progress on equality. Women, like men, have opinions and attitudes very different political and ideological because they have very different interests, but as human beings have a common set of rights ranging from the right to work, freedom of expression, to participate actively in politics, to study, and also to the well-deserved rest after long days of work, the right to leisure, culture and recreational aspects. Ridiculing the issues affecting women's rights is a strategy that has always worked the most immobile of society. Often, many of the problems women have been problems "invisible" from the "double day" (at work and at home) to the so-called "glass ceiling" (no explicit barrier often find women to reach positions managers in public and private companies). The fact of trying to keep women hidden at home has been a way to keep it hidden. "What is not there." But the new woman, a woman with rights, has come forward just to go to work outside the home and to get to demand what belongs to without feeling bad about it, in short, be individuals who act accordingly. What is happening right now in the feminist movement raises a number of considerations: first, feminism is currently visible mainly in academia, in research and in the statement of social change, but more sparingly in the opinion public. As a social movement, apparently is not very