Open AccessWomen and Work
Author(s) -
Lebanese American University
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.1619
Subject(s) - pretext , weakness , work (physics) , arabic , law , history , political science , sociology , economic history , philosophy , medicine , engineering , linguistics , mechanical engineering , politics , anatomy
In an Arabic book entitled: "Characteristics of Despotism", published in 1905 by an outstanding Arab reformer of the late 19th and the early twentieth century, the author Abdel-Rahman el Kawakibi, refers to woman's despotism over man as follows: "Women have effected an unjust division of labor -' between them and men_ They have imposed on the latter a law which reserves to them the lighter burden on the pretext of their weakness .. .