For years American women have been and still fight for equality. On the other side of the world however lies a different story. In the Arab-Muslim society familiar western concepts of sexual equality and the liberation of women are irrelevant and unnecessary from local women’s point of view. Writing this essay I have explored and was fascinated by the different definitions of the power of a woman and where exactly it lays.In Arab-Muslim societies there is a complex, well defined and highly structured set of gender roles which underpin personal and public life, and gives marriage and the family a central importance, whereas in the U.S. gender roles have blended over the last few decades to a point where both women and men have the same goals, with priority on career advancement and high social status. It seems that all that separate women and men in the U.S. are stereotypes and the ever disputable “Glass Ceiling.” With such diverse emphasis on life, to compare in what ways the power of women in the U.S. and in the middle eastern societies are different we would first have to define power,Power- an ability || physical strength || controlling influence || a person of great influence and authority.Authority and influence are recognized in different places in these two completely different societies. An Arabian women’s realm is the home. Motherhood, childcare, cooking, cleaning and managing domestic affairs make-up the primary female sphere of influence and activity.Women in the U.S. cannot run away from these responsibilities, after all women in the US do clean their houses, take care of children and manage domestic affairs, however, to different extent and there is defiantly much more desire to work and earn money than in the Muslim society. A Muslim woman views waged work as a necessary evil. They have to earn money to help feed the family but they fear that it interferes with their “real work” of ma...
