Women in a Male-Dominated SocietyNo works cited Being the only girl among forty male classmates in an electrical engineering course, my Aunt Ana had a very unpleasant feeling, that he had never experienced before. She will probably always remember the discussions and questions in the professor's class, during which she always remained silent without participating in the discussions or answering the questions, while almost everyone else gave some answer or comment. What would it be like if he gave the wrong answer? Her colleagues may think that Ana is in the wrong place or, more importantly, that she is just another girl trying to be smart. The same story repeated itself every week. Every time he entered that classroom, he kept his head down looking at the floor. Being the only girl in the engineering class, she was ashamed. "What am I doing here?" he asked himself hundreds of times during this lesson. Ana felt like a stranger in a distant and unknown land where people speak a different language. Men are real masters of engineering lessons. It is their world and their kingdom. Why? Who established this rule? Where are the women in this mix? Who represents it? Since the most ancient times and the most ancient civilizations, women have had a secondary role, in which they were worth less than men. In both the Roman Empire and ancient Byzantine Greece the role of women in society, created and imposed by a man, was that a woman is only fit to raise children and to be a housewife. Furthermore, in most Asian countries, even today, women are anchored to the same stereotype. Even in Arab countries the woman was an inferior second-class citizen: she was not allowed to participate in public life, furthermore she could not be seen in any "male" place such as a cafe, a bar or a mosque. Furthermore, in Africa the woman is a housekeeper surrounded by her children, waiting for her husband to return home from hunting, to bring food for her and the children. Today the importance and status of women have changed, they have modernized I would say. In recent years, women have gained more control over their rights, thanks to the feminist movement. They are attending college and graduate school in greater numbers than ever before. In the field of work, women have made great strides: the once unimaginable increase in the number of women in high-status, high-paying professions such as US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright or US First Lady Mrs..