Cleopatra & Hatchepsut

A Feminine Woman is more beloved by

People rather than a Masculine Woman Introduction Throughout history , women have lacked the opportunity of power otherwise enjoyed by men . Women were considered as submissive creatures incapable of unacceptable opinions to attain complete individual freedom . Men as the dominant gender portray the masculine principle of a romantic Don Quixote which has once received an undivided praise . Over the centuries women have slowly earned recognition for their work and diligence and become success objects ' in their field of choice without any need to outdo one

another . With a worldwide support and advocacy for the rights of women , the feminine gender is gaining the power to insist their own right and call for a much needed change into the contemporary society We have seen such movement in the 60 's when women began to work for equal rights and vocally insisting on their right to have control over their own bodies and earn sufficient incomes . In some countries where women are population-dominant , women strive to achieve and attain certain degree of success in their social strata . The roles of women were distinct and complementary for the welfare of society as a whole (Ladd 14 . Although still a minority , the world has just seen women taking in the formidable role of a leader in some countries . In the US a few top government positions are held by women . Yet in Ancient Egypt thousands of years before male leaders dominated the Greek and Roman empires , Egypt as the center of trade and culture was once ruled by great women Hatshepsut and Cleopatra are the two famous women pharaohs of Ancient Egypt who stood in as rulers when male heirs failed to materialize in to preserve their dynasties (Meade 88 . Although the claim to rule was derived from their ancestral reign , both pharaohs were active rulers in their rise to power . Egyptian women living along the banks of the Nile enjoyed a form of equality and are often found alongside their men at every level of the society . It is not difficult to see Hatshepsut gaining a higher regard as woman-ruler if her resources were made available today . History was cruel to Hatshepsut when Thutmose 's male chauvinism refused to be defeated by Hatshepsut 's accomplishments thereby typically erasing all traces of a dominant female ruler (Lewis 36 . To recall , Hatshepsut was always accorded fame and primacy whether by a subtle detail indicating her preeminence with minimal reference to the young Thutmose III . Clearly Hatshepsut benefited from all this attention and significant support from men and her loyal subjects Thutmose disd at having been kept in the background for a long time had her cartouches erased after her death and replaced by those of Thutmose I , II and his own (Vernus and Yoyotte 35 . Resentment nor revenge against Hatshepsut was not on Thutmose mind because he had waited 30 years before doing such things . After Hatshepsut 's reign Thutmose must have felt the need to restore women...