The married woman... Part Three
That is why I have always insisted on women studying and learning. As a housewife, she needs to be knowledgeable and aware of her affairs and the affairs of her children. It is not fair at all to deprive a woman of studying, as she is a person who needs that light in her life for science and knowledge, so her life turns blurry to black without learning. Without studying, I am surprised that a family deprives its daughters of studying, unlike its boys. Study is an integral part of the lives of both genders, and not necessarily for the sake of a job and work. Even as a wife and housewife, she needs to be educated. She cannot read the documents for the simplest things. Many women I met in the street asked. About what is written on their papers. She is carrying a document and does not know what is written in it, or she is searching for a doctor’s office while standing in front of it, or for the name of a street she is searching for, but she cannot read what is written. Poor uneducated woman, she is forced to endure this. The bitter reality, especially when she becomes responsible for a family, for young children, in exchange for the abandonment and absence of the husband and his neglect of his family, a neglect that kills in a woman her feelings and humanity, kills everything beautiful in her. The woman, as a feminine element, is easily broken and defeated, as too much pressure defeats strength itself. How can a woman who is helpless...
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