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Since early history, before civilization the male gender has always been considered as being more dominant than the female gender. In this paper, a study of ancient gender inequality in two different civilizations will be carried out. In addition, one will seek to find out how this inequality between genders shaped the civilizations. One of the main comparisons that can be made of the two civilizations, this being Mesopotamia and Egypt, is the gender inequality that existed. Women in these civilizations were not given a chance in society. However, as much as this is the case, the women gender in Mesopotamia experienced more inequality than the Egyptians (Bentley, Ziegler, 2010). This is because, during the early civilization, Egyptian believed in goddesses. This gave women a more important role to play. Most women were however not respected and were badly treated.
However, women who came from privileged families were well respected than those who came from poor backgrounds. In both civilizations, women were only meant to work in the house or the kings’ place. No woman was allowed to express herself through artwork or any other form of expression (Bentley, Ziegler, 2010). However, marriage alliance in the old civilization was critical in maintaining relationships between the kingdoms in Egypt. However, while this might have helped the kingdoms women were not given a chance to choose whom they wanted to marry. Forced marriages to maintain relationships between kingdoms, demonstrates the sort of gender inequality that women in both societies faced. However, this gender `inequality helped shape the two societies to what they are today. In today’s civilization, men are still regarded as being more important than women in both societies are. This is due to the influence of earlier societies befor...