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Role of Women in Society – Short and Long Essay

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Editorial Staff • January 23, 2019  1 minute read

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Essay on the Role of Women in Society (500

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“About half of our population is of women, so,

democratically speaking, they deserve all the rights and
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importance in society, which can help them to perform

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their roles.”

Women are as important as men in any society. They stay in the house and keep it in
good order. They cook food for the family. After marriage, they give birth to children.
They provide every comfort to their husbands and children. Quite a few women stay

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outside the house to teach or work in government and private offices, hospitals,
business centers, banks, and public places. In the villages, they work side by side with
men in the fields and look after animals at home. In this way, they contribute to social
and national progress.

The work and functions of women are greatly important for the family. Properly

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educated and trained women can be of immense help to their husbands and working

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members of the family. They can teach, train and bring up their children on the right
lines. They can advise their husbands and other members of the family in important

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property, business and professional matters. Their role, then, in the family becomes
paramountly (supremely) important.

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We need educated and well-trained women in our villages and small towns. Female

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teachers, doctors, social workers, government officers, and teachers are needed

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everywhere. Many of our schools and colleges for girls are without enough female

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teachers. The clinics and hospitals in the villages and towns require female doctors,

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nurses and paramedics (doctors’ helpers) in most places. Social workers for the
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guidance of women and children in our village and town streets, houses, markets and

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public places like parks, railway and bus stations, and health centers are urgently
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needed. These trained social workers can advise women and children about what they

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can and should do for a better life. They can tell them about safe and cheap travel from

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one place to another. They can discuss ways of keeping healthy and fit.
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In the bigger cities, we need educated and trained women to work in schools, colleges
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and universities, hospitals, offices, firms and companies, airports and seaports, business
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centers, factories, TV stations, and newspaper offices in different capacities. The fields of
engineering, aviation (flying and airplane operation), agriculture and industry are open
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to women now. They can work in the home and work outside to earn money and to
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keep active in professions of their liking. There are professions like medicine and
teaching where women can work better than or equally well with men. Female
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schoolteachers, doctors, nurses, composers, artists, designers and shop assistants are in
great demand. It all shows the importance and usefulness of women in our society and
other societies as well.

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Essay on the Role of Women in Society

(1000 Words)

The hand that rocks the cradle

Is the hand that rules the world.

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For centuries men considered women the less intelligent of the sexes. This terribly

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wrong perception caused immense loss to their self-dignity. But, at present,

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women have been playing major roles in politics, economy, household, society,

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and nation-building. The timid female of the past has been replaced by a

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youthful, fashion-conscious and smart girl. Women are jostling shoulders with
men and competing with them in engineering, sciences, space research,

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medicine, and business. This marked change in their status reflects the fact that
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their emancipation is almost complete.

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“O fairest of creation Last and best of all God’s works.“

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Only, a few decades ago, the condition of the woman was increasingly poor. Her
position was secluded and she was assigned a lower status in society. She was
virtually condemned to lead her life as a beast of burden. For a very long time,
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she was unable to raise her status from a mere household drudge. She was
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forced to run the house and do all its furnishing, cleaning, cooking, sewing,
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sweeping, dusting, washing and so on. Besides this, she had to rear her children
and serve her husband. She was no better than a slave. She had to be respectful
and submissive before men. They were denied all sort of higher education and
were strictly confined to the four walls of the house. She was always treated in a
brutal manner and was generally regarded as the silly, sentimental and dull
creature. It was a common belief that women were created only to please men.

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Man is the hunter; woman is his game. The sleek and

shining creatures of chase. We hunt them for the
beauty of their skins. They love us for it,……”
Tennyson

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Shakespeare addressed her as Frailty and some other well-known writers
depicted her as the treacherous creature that tempts men to their doom. The

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metaphysical belief that “Eve tempted Adam” and he fell made the things much

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worse for women. Gone are those days when all this befell women and subjected
them to unspeakable suffering both physically and mentally. Women have now

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been emancipated from the slavery of men to a considerable extent. The

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widespread illumination of knowledge has changed the situation altogether.

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Women have finally come out of the four walls of the house and found their way

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to the higher educational institutions. And education, in turn, has enlightened
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them broadening their outlook and horizon simultaneously. They have set up

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their own organization for the welfare and progress of women at large. They have

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started claiming equal rights with men and have succeeded appreciably on many

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fronts. They have entered practical life and are playing a significant role for both

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are entering the once male-dominated management areas. They are taking an
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active part in the politics of the country and are fully determined to compete
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against men in every professional walk of life.

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“If women are expected to do the same work as men,

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we must teach them the same things.”

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Plato, “The Republic

Modern women are no longer ignorant and shy as women had been up to the
near past. Now they are considerably brave and have a lot of confidence to
accomplish the tasks assigned to them. She has got the complete liberty to

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decide her affairs quite independently. Man no more enjoys the right to impose
his authority on women. She has virtually emerged as an earning member of the
family, for today, men and women have to be the joint operators of the economic
switchboard.

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“The womans cause is mans They rise and sink

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Today the world has undergone a sea change. The new economic affairs have

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impelled women to come out of their homes and join various professions in

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order to supplement the income of their menfolk. But women, by nature, are
tender, compassionate and sympathetic. They can, therefore, become good

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teachers, nurses, physicians, social workers, journalists, wardens of orphanages

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and homes for old and poor persons. This is, however, not to say that they cannot

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succeed in other professions. Some people object to nursing as something anti-
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Islamic. They are totally mistaken, for the pages of history give a vivid’ account of

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the brave Muslim women who helped the wounded Muslim warriors in the
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battle-fields. The dramatic spread of education has enormously contributed to

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regarded highly noble profession and lady doctors, as well as nurses, are
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respectable figures all over the country.

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“Give me good mothers and I will give you a

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In modern times, almost all the professions are virtually open to women. They are
entering public services as class I and class II officers in the executive Jobs as
judicial magistrates, civil judges, income-tax officers, customs officers, school,
college and university teachers and various other crucial jobs. Some women are

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joining as lawyers, secretaries, air hostesses, ticket collectors, computer operators,

saleswomen, bank officers, police officers and so on.

The women of the rural areas have always played an extremely active role in the
economic field. They are no longer restricted to the fields only. They are working
effectively in the fields of poultry breeding, sewing, embroidery, midwifery,

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nursing, preserving vegetables and fruit etc. The radio and television have made

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them fully aware of their rights. This development has changed the very face of
the countryside regarding the status and dignity of women.

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Women constitute nearly half the population of Pakistan. The country where

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women are kept in ignorance is destined to be doomed. The history of the
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developed countries affords increasing evidence that the progress of a country
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has always synchronized with the liberation and education of women.

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civilization of a country by the social and

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political position of its women.”

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Charles Fourrier
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The same thing happened in Japan and Turkey, and today we find that both the
countries are counted among the developed countries of the world. Matrimony is
no more the sole aim of a woman’s education; it has rather assumed new
dimensions in recent times. Women are getting an education in order to perform

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well at home, at the workplace, in the community and society. So, much greater
facilities are needed for the education and training of women at large.

To sum up, today’s woman has decisively rejected the sentimental myth of “frailty
which kept depicting her as man’s plaything and a purchasable commodity. The
woman is playing a crucially important role in the making of a nation. The man

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has also revised his attitude towards woman. Ladies First is the order of the day

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and the man calls it courtesy to conceal’ his defeat at the hands of a modern
woman. Today’s women are more hardworking and sincere in all the walks of life

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and are more productive than their male counterparts.

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“O women Lovely woman Nature made thee To temper
man; we had been brutes without you.”

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We are living in a rapidly changing world. If we listen carefully, we can hear the
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woman’s revolution thundering on not so distant shores.

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One Comment
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Maryam
November 5, 2018 at 10:47 am

Outstanding..

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